Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

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.

We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors.

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].

Repetition is the death of magic.

I personally don't subscribe to any particular cosmology or beleif system. I'm a seer.

If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.

When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore.

I think the main change is the fact there are so many women involved on the set now.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.