Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

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.

Shrug off the no’s – they are temporary. This is your world. In your world there is only yes.

Stand-up is the only career like that where once you get really big at it, people kind of encourage you not to do it.

I always try to avoid anything that has to do with my life.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self-discovery, of awakening.

When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.

I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.

It could have been worse. I could have been born black.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'