It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

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.

Life can be so unexpected and wolderful!

Sometimes the most effective idea was just so simple that nobody could slow down their brain enough to think it up.

I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.

Shadows are in reality when the sun is shining the most conspicuous thing in a landscape next to the highest lights.

To the lack of incentive to effort which is the awful shadow under which we live may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

Our children were created with a deep hunger to encounter the supernatural living God.

There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.