It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.

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.

Confidence of a dedicated person, seems to be over-confidence to ordinary masses.

[S]hame is a child of custom rather than of nature.

With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.

I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian.

I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.