"Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield."

"People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within."

"You can complain because roses have have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."

"If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear."

"Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose."

"Justice Marshall has made his decision. Let him enforce it."

"It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks."

"As for you, your happiness is complete; it remains merely to enjoy it. And to become perfectly happy you are in need of nothing more than to know how to be satisfied with being so."

"Prejudice is the reasoning of fools."

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."