Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

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.

What if everything you have been taught is all a lie and everything you feel is all a truth?

I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers'. I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

That's one of the things I like about Mary Lou. She's willing to believe the worst about anyone.

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

The beet must be uprooted.

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.