Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

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.

If you got a dream, you are good to go. The only extra luggage you will need is self-belief and perseverance.

Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the earliest times, been distinguished by the quest for order.

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

Can I ask you a question?" "You already have." He paused, considering. "Can I ask you two questions, then?" "You already have.

I've never presented myself as anything less than a flawed person.

Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it?

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?