True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

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.

People don’t believe the truth but believe what they constantly hear.

Every species embodies a solution to some environmental challenge, and some of these solutions are breathtaking in their elegance.

Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong.

Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet .

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.

Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

I don't like looking outrageous.

It's nice to dig deeper into people who may look one way but always have a story to tell. I obviously write about that a lot.