Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

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.

Seeking external validation brings disappointment. Validate yourself from within to find true happiness.

Friendship grows from a caring heart with sense and sensibilities.

This very easy divorce had become very difficult. I thought I was in the express lane and it was all fast tracks from there. Think again.

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.

One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow

My ideas are a shapeless mass that my writing molds into beauty.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.

I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.