Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

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.

Your life goal and mission is to find your gift, become what you have been created to be and with your gift serve mankind, promoting advancement and influencing humanity

There was no plan for us. We are a misspelling being erased by Death in order for the story of total chaos to continue.

If you don't know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get.

There is no present or future only the past happening over and over again now.

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.

God is on the side of the oppressed.

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.