People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.

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.

After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. There's a lot of cool stuff in there... all the heartbreak of the country darkness.

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.