When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

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.

You're all we have left of him.

I can see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

They, who know no evil, will suspect none.

...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.

Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!

Anybody who thinks there's not a vast right-wing conspiracy in this country must also think that Ken Starr should be our next ambassador to Luxembourg.

I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.