One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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.

That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in your heart at once.

The price spoils the pleasure.

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

Art is really whispering, not shouting.

All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

The idea for a novel is like a little tiny fire in a dark night. And, one by one, the characters come and stand around it and warm their hands.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.