It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

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.

I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?

When you’re seventy-five, you are still going to be you.

Journeyman stared at Grimm as though Grimm had just suggested that the engineer should prostitute his mother to pirates.

Why should we not expect self-designated environmental leaders to practice what they preach?

People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second class citizens within their own company.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine.

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.