Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

If the weeds are removed and there is nothing planted, it is the weeds that will keep growing.

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus.

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

I hate people doing an emotional striptease. It's never genuine or they wouldn't drag outsiders m.

I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars

Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

They're going to need a DNA test to identify him after the fight (Chavez Jr.)