There can be no happiness without good health

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.

Flow is the best of what happens when potential is activated by consciousness.

There's a mess inside you: You clean the outside.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

Follow your passions, follow your heart, and the things you need will come.

Seeing is such a privilege. Who notices the way the screech of a gull looks, the look of a gale, the sight of some fragrance?

Everything we have of value as human beings - as a civilization - is the result of our intelligence.