The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

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.

In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

Times change, and right now what people need is, they need to be able to send their kids to college, they need to able to buy a house.

Children will imitate their fathers in their vices, seldom in their repentance.

I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up

Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.

I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.