My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

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.

Never live life without a hope.

Life is about timing.

You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

I like to play with things a while before annihilation.

We [the United States] are the world's only superpower right now, so everyone notices every bit of what we do or don't do.

When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve.

Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less.