He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled

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.

I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.

A winner endures all pain.

Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

This was on my vision board. To run out there and be hitting game winners, getting the fans riled up. When they're stomping on the floor yelling 'New York Knicks'—that's a great feeling.

Let' em learn or let' em die

I always say to my students, if you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.

There's definitely a visual aspect and an emotional aspect to a song. And that harks back, for me, to theater.

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.