He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

People generally believe that which they wish to believe and disbelieve that which is unpleasant.

Jan had always been a good pianist, and now he was the finest in the world.

If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.

We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun.

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.