All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge 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.

You’ll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

I can't take one breath, not one single breath, without knowing that I love you.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

At the shock of a joke, everything disappears but the present moment.

You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.