The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

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.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Look heavenly onward.

How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.