If you see a man approaching with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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 can choose to have a positive attitude

Pleasure depends on circumstances, but Christian joy is completely independent of health, money, or surroundings.

Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny.

I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.

Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.

Thank God for vinyl! It's wonderful to be involved in something that captures your life from almost the beginning to the end. I'm absolutely blessed.

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.

Clearly there are always unintended consequences of any legislative or regulatory act that's taken in the heat of battle.

At the end of your life, you cannot take a penny with you. So what is the object of money if you can't take it with you?

In a story, nothing is real until it is acted upon.