But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

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.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.

You loved me before seeing me

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

You may say, 'That's naïve of you,' and maybe it is, but in my mind, I'm celebrating every kind of woman. That's what a creative person does.

From 1931 to 1937, I was a Fellow and Lecturer in Economics at Hertford College, Oxford.

Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital.

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.