Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

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.

You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.

God is my helper.

Either way, Grayson found it ironic how such dissimilar circumstances, colleges, and mental hospitals, had led to the same awful apartment.

I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

Trends that can't continue, won't.

Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.

The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!

The quality of success you will experience in your life ultimately depends upon the tiny choices you make every minute of every hour of every day.

When you truly love yourself, you don't have enemies. They may hate you but you're too big to hate them back.