Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.

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.

When the wind blows, the weak are carried away by it, the strong resist it, and the wise manipulate it.

With enough coffee anything is possible

Some of us fail to find the good in the bad because resentment is a shortcut to resolution.

Always try to see behind what you see because all you need to see can be only at the behind of the thing you see!

What's afterlife?" Asher asked, sincerely, indicating a trio of passing shoppers laden with brightly colored bags, who turned up their noses. "There's only life.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

Don't get sidetracked. If you do get sidetracked, get back on track as soon as possible. Ultimately sidetracking kills you.

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone!

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.