The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

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.

History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people.

Rather than being a human, be a humanitarian

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them

One can often recognize herd animals by their tendency to carry bibles.

The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in.

Don't live the same year seventy-five times and call it a life.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.