A hole is nothing at all but you can break your neck in 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.

Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

the middle manager is doomed to remain just that. Once an office rat, always an office rat.

If you think about how long it takes to write a piece of music for an orchestra, it's outrageous to me, outrageous.

Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.

I would love to meet Martin Luther King. His fearless attitude, leadership, and self-awareness changed our world.