History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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.

Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

I don't like rehearsal.

I was an assistant once. I worked for Rob Reiner and his family. I did sign a confidentiality agreement, though.

Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs

I believe that the monetary stability is an absolutely critical element in the satisfactory operation of a system.

There's not that many surprises that you get in life.

I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip.

I was a coward on instinct.