It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

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.

The quite person's mind is a raging ocean!

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.

My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more.

If you keep examining your mind, you'll come to see that thoughts of who you are and how it all is are creating the reality you're experiencing.

Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that?

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax.

It's impossible to contemplate the life of soil very long without seeing its analogy to the life of the spirit.