The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

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.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

As you give God your time, your gifts, your resources and talents, He will use them to have a critically important and eternal impact on this world.

Face up to those areas that are weak in your life and seek to make them strong.

I give money to everybody. When they call, I give. And you know what, when I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them and they are there for me.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

I have to make rock records occasionally.

As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role.

It's a shame to see drug dealers enter and leave the United States as if nothing in addition to those that purchase weapons and firearms.

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.