... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

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.

Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?

Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a 'how to' for achieving success. You have to build either of them one brick at a time.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

We should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Jesus.

I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

They may attack me with an army of six hundred syllogisms; and if I do not recant, they will proclaim me a heretic.

Twitter should ban my mother.

Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach.

When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid.

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.