It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue.

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.

No one is mandating merit pay.

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Marriage is supposed to be permanent. It's like a tattoo that yells at you.

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

Former Governor [Jeb] Bush calling for an end all together of the Supplemental Nutrition Program, or what some people call food stamps program, as part of an overhaul.

If people can understand the Lord's message in Bhagavad-gita, they can become truly happy.

Im sometimes mistaken as the wife of the chairman. I just laugh it off.

Specifically for black women, our images and our bodies in the media and in history have been so hypersexualized.

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.