A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

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.

Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

Good design is good business.

I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn't take an oath of office to my party or my president.

Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

I don't know why people carry guns. Guns kill people.

If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?

Love. Is it just a word that boys use to manipulate girls?

We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.