History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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.

...It is only now that memory works both ways. Which of us dreamed it - those from the country of nights five times as warm and as cold, or those who turned away and woke?

Highs must be followed by lows.

What is more powerful than the love of a mother? Perhaps only God's hand in answering her earnest pleadings on your behalf.

Maybe don't make it so.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

I've been lucky that I've been around good people, who kept me grounded and taught me.

I don't believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.

I lack confidence as an actor.

We play happy music and we make people happy, that's why they like us

I can take just about anyone and make them physically strong.