It is more difficult to organize a peace than to win a war; but the fruits of victory will be lost if the peace is not organized.

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.

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

Life is a very narrow bridge between two eternities. Be not afraid.Rabbi Nachman of Braslav

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

I think that Goldman Sachs and the Pentagon determine more of America's outcome then any president or any congress, that sounds a bit cynical, but I think I am right.

I believe that I have now experienced the lifetime maximum exposure to bottom spanking in fantasy novels.

I need to learn how to start saying no. Like when someone says ‘please stop choking me.’

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

Average Americans, middle-class citizens, just feel disenfranchised by our government. And they feel particularly unhappy by what is perceived as business-as-usual politics in Washington.

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.