I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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 think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.

I don't know about you, but I like to fall in love on Mondays. This way if things go south right away you still have the weekend.

Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

Romania is an interesting place because I think it has been abused, on so many different levels.

Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a way to prudently follow the advice to write what you know.

The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.

A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.