A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.

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.

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

Еach song is like starting over. Because somehow, no song's formula works for another. And that's the beauty of it all. Each song's destiny is embedded in its DNA. And our job is to reveal it.

Accept Him? Do we really think Jesus needs our acceptance? Don't we need Him?

He captured my heart. He loves me for who I am, not what I can bring to him." - Lucinda Price, Rapture

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.

Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.

I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.

Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.