Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

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 expect too much from people who don't even have respect for themselves.

Even if you can’t see the whole road ahead, you can ask for the one step that will lead you forward.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers.

Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.

Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards.