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.

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.

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.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.

There's nothing like coming home here, having the day off or morning off and going surfing. In Orlando I don't know what I would do.

It's easy to have talent at 20 but what is difficult is to have talent at 50.

In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it.

For sure Tupac [Shakur]. Without a doubt. I have to have Pac at the party doing it!

The UN can go as far as the U.S. will allow, and no further. And it's bound by conditions that the powerful states, which means mostly the U.S., impose.

Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp no one would eat?

I am in the position of judging people by the best they've ever done rather than the worst.