Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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.

I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor.

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language.

Baby you're a firework, come on, let your colors burst!!

A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

I know who I am as an artist. I've always known who I am as an artist.

'Friends' was a magical thing, and no one's going to ever have anything like that again.

Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.