Friends made fast seldom remain fast.

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.

Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend.

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.

He regards boredom, I observe, as the One and Mighty Enemy of his soul. And will succeed in conquering it, I am sure—if he survives the experience.

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.

We are all the people we knew; all the books we read; all the roads we travelled; all the mistakes we made; all the dreams we dreamed! We are... We are all of them!

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.