Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

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.

Music is either good or it isn’t, it’s not someone’s opinion.

Can a man still be brave if he's afraid? That is the only time a man can be brave.

God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife.

Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.

None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle, God, is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there