That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

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'm not saying homeschooling will be easy. I am saying it will be worth it.

Sometimes thinking isn't thinking, it's dreaming with eyes wide open.

I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of thing. I'm not "losing it"; it's changed. What it is is changing.

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

You acquire a new kind of intelligence when you stay away from instant news.

Are you badly hurt?" "Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less.