A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Life like two broken hands trying to pick flowers for someone you really like.

The spirits of the dead are not among us to entertain us... Assuming the revenants you encounter have simply signed up to play haunted house for the amusement of the living is just plain ignorant.

There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth.

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.