If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

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.

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.

For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence.

Being discriminatory is necessary if you want to make a lot of money.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.

To be possessed by Jesus and to possess Him - that is the perfect reign of Love.

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.