He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

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.

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.

The journey of growth, search for the secret has always been within, the simpler we make it, the better it gets.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

You cannot live your life in ifs and maybes...you cannot live it in week commencings. You live it right here. You live it now.

I do believe that the future of civilization belongs to those who would lay emphasis on working together instead of talking about clash of civilizations.

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.

Led Zeppelin. Queen. Deep Purple. These were the bands I listened to. I still listen to them.