The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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.

You couldn't hide from bad things and pretend they didn't exist–that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.

Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.

Others are not born bad or good... and neither are people, by the way.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

I only ever play Vegas one night at a time.

We will never move out of the present and into the future with all God has planned for us if we cling to dwell in the past.

I came to love, I came into my own.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.