To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

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.

Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count

Baby girl, five minutes alone with me and you're gonna be begging me to taste your pie.

I was delighted with Baku. People said I was completely mad; I was so happy when it all turned out all right.

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Ingrid Kristiansen then has smashed the world record, running the 5000 metres in 14:58.89. Truly amazing. Incidentally, this is a personal best for Ingrid Kristiansen.

A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

I'm very down-to-earth and accessible, I think.

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.

There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.