The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

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.

Was there even such a thing as normall? People had terrible things behing their faces sometimes. He knew that now.

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work. That doesn't mean that your curiosity is ever totally satisfied.

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.

I prefer to stay in shape through doing activities I enjoy, such as climbing, hiking and exploring.

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.

Every seam, every lace, every bead has been painstakingly, with love, corrected, perfected and mastered.