Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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.

Other translations may engage the mind, but the King James Version is the Bible of the heart.

To fit into the need of God is to manifest his love-nature

Practice is a great contributor to success, but you have to be careful what you practice.

The more you know who you are and what you want, the less let things upset you

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

We need a very progressive and strong agenda to bring people into the political process because I worry very much about the future of the American democracy where so many people are giving up.

Once you realize that there are only certain points which you are willing to negotiate, it makes the negotiation much simpler.

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

His name, even, is part of the marketing scheme, I mean, Thelonious Sphere Monk - how can you think of a better name to fit his style of playing?