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.

I always say, 'Books beat boredom, ' said Amanda wisely.

Talking doesn't mean you have said something. What really matters is the message your words carry, not the sound, but the reveberation it causes on the soul.

This house is just a thing .... On your love list, always put the beating hearts at the top.

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who’s harming yourself.

The real me isn’t someone you see but someone you know.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

Sometimes there are times you actually don't want to be in the information loop on some rumors; because once you're in the loop, then if something leaks, you're one of the people in the loop.

Values create dimension, but color usually receives all of the attention. When painting with oils, placing dark and light pigments next to each other can be an accident waiting to happen.