While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

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.

Desire without action will collapse all hope built inside.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

I see no issue with [Donald] Trump spending 48 hours in Scotland.Whether accidental or intentional, the fact that he was there when Britain voted to leave the EU was a good thing for him.

The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.

How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

The real joy in life comes from giving. It comes from service. It comes from doing things for other people. That is what is so powerful about this. Nothing will make you happier than giving.

Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

A sage steers by the bright light of confusion and doubt.