Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

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.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

You can't expect to reap a harvest that you're not willing to plant.

You promise?""I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now.

Anything can be done, as long as you truly believe it.

We are optimists, until we are not.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.

Like a good general, I treated everyone who wasnt with me as against me.

The world has changed, but education has not changed with it.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.