Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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.

Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.

I don’t hate you, ” I said, and I almost believed it.

Don't retire, rewire and refire

I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.

The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

The market for nonsense is infinite.

At Death we are aware that we are more than just our physical bodies.

I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.

Your money can be inflated away but your knowledge and talent cannot.