Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler.

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.

Dear little Swallow, ’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter." And proved it--'t was no matter what he said.

It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister.

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.

If it's called THE USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday?