Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

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.

Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse.

We may get a paycheck, but over time what we sense is the dying of our souls.

If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

I haven't actually seen a Lady Gaga tour, but I do think she's very good.

We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.

Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.