Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

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.

It's amazing what flipping a grown man over her shoulder does for a girl.

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.

No people ever rise higher, as a people, than the point to which they elevate their women.

If Diet Coke did not exist it would have been neccessary to invent it.

I have faith in the market when we get the rules right.

The first Disney movie I saw I think was 'Snow White.' I loved all the Disney princess movies.

'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.

I hate to be like everyone else, but I'm rooting for San Antonio because I like teams that were built the old-fashioned way.