Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.

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.

Ask not what your country can do for you

A spiritually mature person is capable of admitting his mistakes and sins.

If you don't know where you want to go, then it doesn't matter which path you take.

All things change nothing is extinguished.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Doing what you're afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that- that's what life is.

I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker

I drew when I was very, very young. My mom kept stuff I drew when I was 2 and a half years old, because it looked like, you know, like a jaguar as opposed to a cheetah.

Learning to listen to ourselves is a way of learning to love ourselves.

I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.