Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.