And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

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.

For every woman who burned a bra, there's a man burning to wear one.

Don't fear opening a Gift God gives you simply because the packaging isn't 't what you expected..we can't know what's in a gift given until it's unwrapped

Not another word, not another thought, not another sniffle. If you need to pass gas, I pray you'll clench your backside and keep walking until we are certainly alone.

Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.

I miss the smell of him. I miss his lips and his strong arms. I miss him.

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.

When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!

I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether