The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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.

He smiled in a way that made me want to kiss him right on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer.

Words to invoke peace & awareness. Words to create freedom and fairness. Words to plant sacred seeds. and sing us back into balance.

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

I never used to like babies. I'd always thought if a baby were more like a chimpanzee, I'd have one

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.