We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

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.

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

Life is a gift. We don't earn it. We don't own it. Learn to be thankful for the time that you have.

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

The eye takes a person into the world. The ear brings the world into a human being.

I had hoped to let the one-half cent sales tax sunset this year, but we do not believe revenues will grow as fast as we hoped for the rest of the year.

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift.