History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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.

I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time.

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people's dreams come true.

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.