A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under 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.

We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

Al Sharpton chases the spotlight the way Obama chases golf balls

Is dere anysing special about you? Anysing vorth saving?" Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

No matter how much you've worked so hard to be as successful as you are, there will always be those ignorant haters who don't understand.

Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

I feel like I'm at a point in my career where I'm looking for something else to sink my teeth into that's interesting to me, that I can do that I can feel like I'm turning another corner.

Camping is not a date; it's an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home.