Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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 greatest weight a bird has to drop before it can fly is fear.

The beauty of art is that it comes from the heart.

I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.

We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.

I crawled in the bathroom, looked in the mirror and saw the devil. It was me.

It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause.