The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

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.

One cannot enter a State legislature or a prison for felons without becoming, in some measure, a dubious character.

Stephanie took another puff from her candy cigarette, reached into her purse, brought out the rest of the pack, and said, "Want one of these damned cigarettes?

You pull the trigger just for fun, forgetting I'm a loaded gun. So hate me for the things I've done, and not for what I've now become.

In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.

What has really changed in the industry is the consumer. The 'he' is now a 'she,'

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.

When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.