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

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.

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.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

Human sympathy has its limits.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5, 000 years of history.

I love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense.

Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!

In terms of a character, I would love to play a fairy. I think that would be really fun.

Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability.

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.

L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.