Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

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.

More depended on the student than on the school.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. —STEVEN WRIGHT

Winners aren't those who lose the least, but rather those who learn the most from their losses on their way to victory.

A joke is either funny or it's not funny. If I hear a funny joke, you know what I do? I laugh, that's what I do. I don't start a focus group to see who got hurt by the joke.

You can take the woman outta the trash, but you can't take the trash out a the woman.

Nobody understands how hard it is, being a captain.

Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours.

My own thing is in my head. I hear sounds and if I don't get them together nobody else will.

The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.

I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.