The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

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.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin

From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true.

To will what God doth will, that is the only science That gives us any rest.

I want to see a UN that enables a gathering of energies in which business plays its proper role.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

A loser says that's the way it's always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.