Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

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.

To become more like Jesus we must understand that the only growth we can be in charge of is our own.

If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven?

Only the impossible is worth attempting. In everything else one is sure to fail.

There was a time when certain producers could produce just about anything, and the label execs would say, "That's a such-and-such record. Let's put that out as the first single."

There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships.