The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise.

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.

The greater the injury, the greater the fun.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

If you're gonna live, then live it up.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding financially because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away for a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.