Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

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 love is in the waiting...

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

A good example has twice the value of good advice

When the enemy is driven back, we have failed, and when he is cut off, encircled and dispersed, we have succeeded.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

If it turned out Brandon Stark also likes to dress up as Strwberry Shortcake while playing croquet with his miniture pony collection, I totally wouldn't be surprised anymore.

There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.