The energy or active exercise of the mind constitutes life.

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.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

There are some who said I should have fought harder or longer than I did for my marriage, but in the end fighting for love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything.

... it is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.

Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.

We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.