Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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.

Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.

If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have the devotion of the men who see and hear him.

I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.

Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.

I try to tell young people to get in shape now, because it's easier. If you're 30 and want to drop 10 pounds, all you have to do is just walk.

The best defense against democracy is to distract people.

There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.