Don't think money does everything or you are going to end up doing everything for money.

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.

And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important

Write about winter in the summer.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

I always say expect the unexpected!

There are a lot of powerful women in Hollywood who have been movie stars for a long time who are getting into their forties and fifties. I still want to see them work.

Im not your biggest girly girl.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.