Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.

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.

His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

Bravery comes along as a gradual accumulation of discipline

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

People don't ask Jay-Z to take his shirt off when he rhymes.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through.

They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.