In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

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.

Don’t lower your standards to keep anyone, if they’re not making you happy, it’s time to find someone who does.

Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you.

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

I'm smart enough to realize that the world does not stop and change because I want it to.

I still don't believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don't stuff down chocolate biscuits.

I wouldn't mind being a lord.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

So how many women have you visited in their dreams? (Geary) Is this one of those questions that if I don’t answer it correctly, you get angry at me? (Arik)

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.