Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

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.

If there's anything worse in this world than a bad batch of babi guling, it's hindsight.

MankindMen, said the Devil, are good to their brothers:they don’t want to mendtheir own ways, but each other's.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

Happiness is a rare cosmetic.

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

The family is the pattern of heaven.

When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to love. But in Christian conception, God really has love as his essence.

True prayer is asking God what He wants.