Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

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.

We all dream of finding that one person whom will love us even after there are no more tomorrows.

Do not imprison your mind with negative thoughts

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

You remove heavy metals out of the ground and you turn that into tables, and houses and bridges and dreams for people in the developing world. I love doing that.

Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.

Why change the world? Change worlds!

I like my hands. They're certainly scarred up, but they're wormy. They're knuckly. They're hands that have done stuff, and they're not going anywhere.

As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.

It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.

Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-been.