Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

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.

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

I never stop thinking about what I have to do. Let's put it that way. The only thing that takes me out of that is probably a film. I watch a lot of movies.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.