Happiness is a good that nature sells us.

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.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place.  I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family.  But no one is offering any clear information.

It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d

I like to practice being still and I feel like that promotes a lot of positivity.

Worry and faith just don't mix.

There's some people on the pitch... they think it's all over... it is now!

If there's an award for best mother-in-law in the universe, in the future, when my son gets married, I will win that award.

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.