To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

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.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that refledts it.

External sources of positive energy and motivation will exhaust, unless we have our captive generation of positive energy.The only sustainable source of positive energy is our thoughts.

A central part of the torturer’s craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity.

I think people are dreaming big because they have the tools to dream big. I hope that people are dreaming big because it makes them feel good about their lives.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'

If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one.

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

I am singing now while Rome burns.

Where's the glory in repeating what others have done?