I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

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.

Gratitude goes beyond a delight for a gift

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.

Ah, cruel fate, how swiftly joy and sorrow alternate!

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.

There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country's so innocent?

I don't objectify myself. I hate looking at pictures of myself, they're usually awful.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who seek God and those who seek to avoid him... and both will be successful.

An external thing that is knowable [is knowable] by means of something internal that is consubstantial [with the rational soul].