A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Some things are more than we can understand.

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

I am who I am in the eyes of God- nothing more and nothing less.