A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

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.

The problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you're finished.

A world without music is only filled with sounds in the air

It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed.

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.

Motivation triggers luck.

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

Shirley MacLaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive.