The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

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.

The best decisions are always made quickly and changed slowly, not made slowly and changed quickly.

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

Well we looked at all the people in the Bible and we added 'em up all the way back to Adam and Eve, their ages: 12,000 years.

All the things that are taboo are the things that are not normal, and all the things that are not normal are the things that are exclusively about physically being a woman.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.

Plus models have personal trainers and go to college.We're not obese, or lazy, or stupid.