Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

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.

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

I gaze at his pale skin as this energy hits me. My jaw is clamped tight as my eyes squeeze out the pain. I’ve felt this before. It’s like he’s telling me to let him go.

A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.

A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion.

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

To claim the World Bank is just an extension of US foreign policy is just wrong.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.