In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

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.

Evil is a disease able to spread from one person to another, as each convinces the other that might makes right, moral short-cuts are good things, and your enemies are not human but other

That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down.

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.

The longer we stay in Hell, the more we become attached to it.

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.

The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.

Vision w/o execution is just hallucination. You need the right combination of visionary + team that can execute