The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody.

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.

May you be filled with fullness of grace.

To me bathtubs are the epitome of luxury. Either you have no money to own one or you have no time to use one.

I'll love you even when I can't""I'll love you even when I shouldn't

If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.

When people try to take [smoking] away from me I say, 'hey, I stopped everything else.' But, I have to battle that one, too.

The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles.

Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.