The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.

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.

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another.

My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.

I was involved in some of the very first meetings that created the maps that showed what would happen if you had a Category 1, 2 or 3 hurricane in New York.

Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

You'll never be a mature Christian until you understand that God remembers his promises and forgets your sins.

The Union was destroyed against the will of the people, and it was done deliberately - with the participation of the Russian leadership, on the one hand, and that of the putschists, on the other.

I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.

Your either in or out. There's no in between.

Football makes nonsense of class. It may make nonsense of colour in some circumstances.