Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

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.

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

Faith is the emperor of dreams.

She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.

It's better not to read your reviews. Just go and do the thing... it would drive you crazy otherwise.

Politics makes strange post-masters.

Advertising becomes a dialogue that becomes an invitation to a relationship.

In general, even if I'm dealing with a historical subject, I begin with invention rather than investigation, because I need to understand what is going to be the voice or the tone of the story.

Everything was invented when somebody was alone.

You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris