The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

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.

Some people dance with singing rain

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!

Don’t you just love children? If they’re not disappointing you, they’re dead.

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.

But let the good prevail.

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.