Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

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.

It is easy to find peace if you are kind, loving, and forgiving.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

The absolute best way to raise kind kids, is to be kind parents.

Watching you stand alone, all of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow.

Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.

I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.

In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.

At 27, it's great to get to a place where I'm not an actor for hire anymore.

As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.