Nations die first in the big cities.

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.

Focus on the solution, not on the problem.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

I like 'The Office.' I particularly like the British version with Ricky Gervais. Of course, I liked the 'Seinfeld' show a lot. I thought that was an awfully good show.

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

Perhaps that is the secret. It is not what we do, so much as why we do it.

God is bigger than every issue you will ever have to face, and you can do whatever you need to do through Christ who strengthens you.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.

And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.