If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

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.

Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now they be stuffing new things into me and this poor head hurts horrid.

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

It's just a big excuse to say awful things.

What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone.