Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection

Water is the best of all things.

Learn what you are and be such.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.

Life is too short. Love is so important.

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.

I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

Those will soon come to make nothing of God that will not be content to make him their all.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast