As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

Give me the patience for the small things of life, courage for the great trials of life. Help me to do my best each day and then go to sleep knowing God is awake.

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom.

Just for the record, I have come to fear all of your ideas in advance, simply from having endured enough of them.

the invisible storehouse in nothingness, called memory.

...and then there was Johan Cruyff, who at 35 has added a whole new meaning to the word Anno Domini.

The first thing I notice about a girl, is her hands. I like girls with nice hands. ... And she must be spontaneous as well.

Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.

God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining.

He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.

I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

I really work. I like feeling that I've nailed it, and we've got the picture.

You still really fight for good parts. It never stops. It's never a breeze. The people at the top of their game work as hard as the people at the bottom.