In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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.

The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.

If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.

My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.

Your vigor for life appalls me.

Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.