Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing.

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.

Stretch your mind and be very kind. Stress will melt away and life will be fine.

I want to be some body’s dumplin’. I’m not chicken.

We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.

Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?

I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

Beauty is merely the Spiritual making itself known sensuously.

[John] Adams was the best and most colorful stylist among the Founders. Although [Tomas] Jefferson is widely regarded as the smoothest writer, Adams is by far the most engaging and imaginative.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

I love that whole princess mentality, but I also like throwing my hair in a ponytail and just wearing jeans, going on a hike and then eating a big chili-cheesebur ger.

The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.