The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

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.

In the face of a disaster, do you believe strongly enough in humanity to expend your life to save the lives of others you do not even know?

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

After wisdom comes wit.

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

It's so rewarding the journey that I've been on.

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

Often people do not properly value things that they are good at naturally because they find them too easy. That is very problematic.

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.