The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.

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.

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.'

Like a heart, and I wish mine wasn't beating.

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

It is no more likely that our world has evolved out of chaos than that a hurricane, blowing through a junk yard, should create a Boeing.

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

I fear I shall never be...good for anything in this world, but composing airs, building towers, forming gardens, collecting old Japan, and writing a journey to China or the Moon.