It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

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.

Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved.

I am not going to live with regret for not having tried.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

I mean, believe me, I'm not for censorship.

Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.

Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread, and serve you French toast again. Okay, I still get stoned.

Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.