In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

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.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

That same preface also contains a single line that really does sum everything up: 'Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.'

The main health hazard in the world today is people who don't love themselves.

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.

No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.