The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. That's great because it inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness.

Having girlfriends is... I can't do it. It doesn't mean I don't hang out with girls. It just means that I don't like being in a relationship, because it makes things very complicated. The one piece of advice that I listen to adults on - because I don't listen to adults when it comes to most things - is that I'm too young to have a girlfriend.

My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.' And that really stuck with me.

People think, for some reason, that I don't care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the biggest misconception is, when you think about me, when you think about my name, I don't want you to think about design or clothes or music. I want you to think about a person that's just trying to help people.

At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.

I can't even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that believes in me.

Aim high and don't sell yourself short. Know that you're capable. Understand that a lot of people battle with a lot of things - depression, body image or whatever else - so know that it's not just you. You're not alone.

To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.