Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.

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.

My silence is my self-defence.

The moon makes love to the ocean and in this holy conception it gives birth to a little tide.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

There are no good guys in a Quentin Tarantino movie. They're all bad guys. And you like us. That's Quentin's big talent.

The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.

I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.