A good imitation is the most perfect originality

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.

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.

A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study.

I'm not a bible thumper, I'm not any of that stuff, but I do believe that the force is with us.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

Be egalitarian regarding persons. Be elitist regarding ideas.

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.

the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities.

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage