The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

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.

If you can trust God and yourself, anything is possible.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

If you have love in your life, you have life.

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.

It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

There is nothing stronger than a heart which loves and is freely given.

Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'