"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune"

"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."

"Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome."

"Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body"

"Childhood is the sleep of reason."

"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know"

"Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body."

"When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime"

"Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess"

"I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another"

"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties"

"I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects."

"I may be no better, but at least I am different."

"I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself."

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

"Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices."

"The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards."

"Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know."

"The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it."

"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."

"Base souls have no faith in great individuals."

"I get to go to overseas places, like Canada."

"I'm rich, freakin' rich. It's crazy."

"Sundance is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them."

"I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa."

"I'm a hometown girl, and my personality at home is the opposite of the performer in me. But then, when I'm home and haven't done anything for a while, I get really itchy and nervous and weird-feeling."

"To be honest, I wish I had more mom friends."

"I love ponytails. I'm a wash-and-go girl."

"My mom is a wonderful woman. She's always been an inspiration to me, but having kids helped me make even more sense of my relationship with her."

"Seriously, I have the best fans ever."

"I love my gay fans. Gay people are always usually my best friends in the whole world. I completely adore them."

"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."

"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."

"Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man."

"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect"

"The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty"

"The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences"

"Our greatest evil flows from ourselves"

"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it."

"Honestly, I still don't use my computer. My kids use the computer more than I do! I understand that a lot of people are into it, and I have days where I write and stuff, but it's really not for me. It's not my thing."

"There are so many soulful singers, even the ones coming from London, like Adele and Jessie J, who are just amazing. It feels like a really cool time to be making music now."

"At the end of the day, I mean, I love my father, but I was always a mama's girl growing up. I'm from the South, so there's always something about me when I'm just with my girls or even my mother. There's just a strong connection there."

"I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching 'Dancing With the Stars' or reading a Danielle Steel novel."

"I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I couldn't be happier."

"I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that."

"I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot."

"Marry Prince William? I'd love that. Who wouldn't want to be a princess?"

"I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old."

"I love Jessica Simpson. I love her voice. She's amazing."