Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

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.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.

We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

I don't want to take somebody else's beating. That makes me unhappy.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation.