The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.

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.

We should be able to refuse enchanting proposals and opportunities, if they contradict God’s principles

Recognize, manage and master your beliefs. They aren’t genetic. They are choices. Choose ones that serve you.

No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member of the body can be understood without reference to the whole of which it is a part.

You're never going to see me playing a buffoon.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Common sense is the best prophet.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

I didn't know you were Catholic.

I caught a glimpse of happiness, and saw it was a bird on a branch, fixing to take wing.