A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties.

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.

Biblical spirituality means powerlessness, living without embellishment or pretense, free to be faithful in the gospel, and free from anxiety about effectiveness or similar illusions of success.

The difference between companies that make $100, 000 vs those that make $1bn dollars within the same industry is paying attention to detail.

The life of your dreams begins with the unfolding of consciousness from within.

She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way

One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.

I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am.

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.