It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

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.

Then again, that's how the most successful predators work, she thinks ruefully. We stumble into their traps and do their work for them while we're busy getting on with the business of living.

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

Her memories got dizzy and fell out of her head.

Ambition is the capacity for unhappiness.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life

Be comfortable; be you. Whats most important is to understand what suits your body type and personality. Stick to that, and you cant go wrong!

When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.

Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer's day.