Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.

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.

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

There are only five things you can do in baseball: run throw catch hit and hit with power.

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care

L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

I don't care," said Seth. "I would have done it. I would have sold my soul for you. You and me...I told you. Something's always going to keep us near each other...even if we aren't together.

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most.

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.