Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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.

Regular people wait for someone to take their sins, while deliverers take the sins of the people upon themselves

The Spirit, and your soul are not the same things. The Spirit is God - the source. Your soul is God's imagination - the subject.

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.

Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing.

Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!

And whichsoever way thou goest, may fortune follow.

If you decide to become a political actor, then the things that you say and you do become subject of public scrutiny and comment.