The best things are placed between extremes.

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.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.

I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.

Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.

To be bored to death is a form of suicide.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.

Nixon was a conservative who’s way more liberal than his party can admit, and Obama’s a liberal who’s way more conservative than his party can admit.

South Pacific - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during South Pacific, I went from being a girl to being a woman.