The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

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.

Finch was his own country, the government unstable, the population volatile.

Contentment is the only one substitute for happiness.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.

Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process.

In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.