Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

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.

I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice.

The best way to persuade is with your ears.

When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.

These White House scandals are not going away anytime soon. People in Kenya are now saying he's 100 percent American. That's how bad it's gotten.

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

The hardest thing for me as an astronaut was to improve my swimming skills.

Ordinary is a word that has no meaning.

If you could get rid of yourself just once, the secret of secrets would open to you. The face of the unknown, hidden beyond the universe would appear on the mirror of your perception.

Animals mean everything to me. We have to be their voice and protectors.