Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

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.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Life’s best lessons are learned during the most painful experiences.

Trying to put music out there in the world is a pretty exciting, yet terrifying, thing and I've just been through the ringer.

There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it.

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to win our approbation, and in this way he flatters us.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

The best way to fight stupidity, is by ignoring it.

The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.

I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.