The art of medicine consists of 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.

Do you have some sort of anti-derangement medication? If so, you might wish to take it.

Sing before the spirits and dance with the earth deitiesAnd you will be able to compose your own tune.Then you and I, united, will clap hands joyously, Singing 'tum-tiddly-um tum-tiddly-um-tum.

Look for competence not claims.

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.

We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.