I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.