A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.

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.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

Luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation. So you must prepare yourself to be lucky.

A writer once asked what I'd say if I ever met my biggest hater. I paused, thought deeply and said, "Probably 'suk a dog dik, motherfuker.'"

Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.

All the cul-de-sacs are closed for Scotland.

We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past!

I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.

The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.