If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

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.

You may have told me your story, but you’re still practically a stranger to me. I don’t know the you that you are right now as well as I know your past.

Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.

I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.