The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.

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.

...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

The language of truth is simple.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself

Tear to a glass eye. Tear to a glass eye.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.