A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

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.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Your first impressions will often occur within a limited window of opportunity—and if you blow it— the opportunity may be lost forever.

Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.

Baseball and malaria keep coming back.

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.

Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day.

Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.