Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Infatuation cannot be sustained indefinitely, my friend. Love that embraces the entire person is a monumental gift that takes time to grow.

He wasn’t allowed to come with me there—my own rule for this little adventure. No more. Good-bye, Aspen.

There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

Certain people do need to stay in character the whole time, and that's just what they require as a person.

When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.