Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

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.

You can’t believe in fate only when it sends you something you want, only when things turn out right. You have to accept what fate sends you or doesn’t send you, no matter whether or not you like it.

You talk as if Bea were a trophy.''No, as if she were a blessing, ' Fermin corrected.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.

My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.

Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.

The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not.

Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently.

You'll always know more in the future than you know now.

You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here