Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

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.

I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind, " said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart.

We’re currently faced with two entirely different challenges – facing down Islamism and jihadism on the one hand, and advancing human rights and democratic culture on the other.

I can only draw what I see.

If you create you will also wait, and while you're waiting you will want to be patient but not idle... responses from the world often take a long time.

We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score.

Isn't your life extremely flat,With nothing to grumble at?

Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).