It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

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.

We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.

I'll see you tomorrow, Mare. You know you want to see my ring.""And your tat, " she said, a smile in her voice.

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

Let my children have music! Let them hear live music.

I'm just a normal schmo like anyone else.

I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.

Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can.

We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.

Open your hands if you want to be held.

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.