An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else there is the Art of Acceptance.

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.

Once we see Jesus, the impossible things He does in our lives become as natural as breathing.