I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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.

If you love someone, unknowingly, you become beloved.

Patience includes perseverance—the ability to bear up under weariness, strain, and persecution when doing the work of the Lord.

I don't need to fight and risk myself just to prove that I am more stronger.All I need is to show my smile that surely will irritate them.

Little did I know that I would be fortunate enough to develop several operating systems in my lifetime; developing one is a rare opportunity for anyone.

Before you ask for the people to rise up and take what's theirs, meet the people, because they're really, really, bafoons.

The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.

Even if you start your laundry before 8 AM on Saturday, you will not finish folding it until after midnight on Sunday.

I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way.

I mean, the best thing for my knee, for anyone's knee, is to never play again and retire. But I'm not going to do that.

She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.