You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.

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.

Monk is helper who to help us in spiritual way.

A man's home is his wife's castle.

You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.

In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.

Whatever our problems are, dreams can provide novel ideas and sometimes magnificent resolutions.

The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built.

Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.