Plato is my friend, but truth is a better friend.

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.

If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away.

I'm not telling people to go vegan overnight.

For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves.

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.

Women will be saved by going back to that role that God has chosen for them. Ladies, if the hair on the back of your neck stands up it is because you are fighting your role in the scripture.

I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.

I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

I never intended to start a new organisation but to share what I knew.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

If the problem is Washington is corrupt, why on Earth would you want to give more power to Washington?