Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

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.

There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else

I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this, " he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?

Tears mess up your makeup.

Try to let what is unfair teach you.

I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

I'm probably not very funny. The scripts just don't come in, or the ones that do aren't that good. I suppose I'm just an old drama queen, really.

Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.