The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

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.

I want my world to start and end with you.

Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

After you get a job and before you have to do it. Nothing beats that.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.