The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.

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.

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

Movie acting suits me because I only need to be good for ninety seconds at a time.

I cannot stress this enough - if you try to install an HDTV in a non-HDTV compatible house, you may tear the space-time continuum.

Do you want to see a mother and son antagonistically attack each other every single episode for five years? I don't think so.

I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

We do not find truth groveling through error.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.