One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

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.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?

Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years - or longer.

I haven't found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.