There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Whom they have injured they also hate.

I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.

I don’t know what it is that I’m doing, but I’m really enjoying myself. And I’m free to do it as much as I want.

Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves.

Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.

I think it shows that sometimes for one person to keep breathing, something else has to stop." (hardcover page 37)

I have achieved a certain amount of success, and I felt a responsibility to my daughter and to women in this world to create more opportunities for women.