The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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 am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born, but you can choose how to die.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

No matter the truth, people see what they want to see.

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.

The most happy ought to wish for death.

Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!