That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

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 believe that this is the time to become warriors for peace and dialogue, not warmongers or mere worriers.

Someone suddenly had direct, unabashed access to my heart.

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

... a man is a very important thing-maybe more important than a star.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

Look-ye, 'tis my Opinion, ev'ry Man cheats in his Way. And he is only honest, who is not discover'd.

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.