For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?

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.

Don’t ask for miracles. You are the living embodiment of all the miracles in the world.

Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

I consider myself fortunate that I've been able to find a character that people have responded to.

For the world you are someone, but for someone you are the world.

Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.

Paradise is open to all kind hearts.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.