It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

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 throbbing shimmy spread through my hips and thighs. I could have sworn my body started to glow as if light were shooting from my fingertips and each strand of hair.

A friend isn't someone you use once and then throw away, a friend is someone you use over and over again.

A small spoon of victory is just the thing to settle the stomach before battle, " Ser Imry had declared happily.

To the good listener half a word is enough.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.

Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.

Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.

Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.