When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

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.

[L]anguage cannot match music's subtlety and preciseness of expression.

Her words dance on the page.

From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.

Passion is what drives me forward. Passion is what makes me go to bed at 2am and wake up at 6am.

You probably don't have much of a choice.

You should take more pride in your appearance,” I tell him. “You'll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.