Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.

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 the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell

There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

One changes, as a writer, fairly quickly; what you wrote six months or a year ago might not sound right anymore.

I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.

A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb.

Tennis has given me soul.

Bush is a nice fellow who gives very good parties. I just wish someone would find him a better job than running the country.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.