The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

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.

Your principles are your true north because they instruct how you will handle every situation, especially when there is no easy choice.

Language spread its warm, absurd rays over all my adolescent thoughts, and I felt the way we all long to feel: moody, lonely, lovesick and explosive with the prospects of tomorrow.

Apparently, denial isn't just a river in Egypt.

Why was it so unlikely that you could meet your soul mate by hitting her with your vehicle? Why was it more likely you’d meet her at your cousin’s wedding?

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens.

My only goal is to look back at the end of each year and see that I have improved.

You become that which you think you are. Or, it is not that you become it, but that the idea gets very deeply rooted and that's what all conditioning is.

There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.