A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

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.

Love is an afternoon of fishing when I'd sooner be at the ballet. Love is eating burnt toast and lumpy graving with a big s

...an obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.

'Fringe' is a sci-fi show. But once you go beyond the genre, you're immersed in a profound reality.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.

There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.

You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation.

Nutrition is not a mathematical equation in which two plus two is four. The food we put in our mouths doesn't control our nutrition-not entirely. What our bodies do with that food does.