The perfect is the enemy of the good.

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.

Time gives our lives numerous opportunities demarcated into moments that allow us to connect the dots while looking back.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself.

Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.

Improv. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.