The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

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.

Positive life, positive deed.

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

So close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my sleep.

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue, oh how my heart yearns for you.

Defensively the Red Sox are a lot like Stonehenge. They are old, they don't move, and no one is certain why they are positioned the way they are.

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.