Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

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.

When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe and boil.

Because what you and others like you have forgotten or never known is that the responsibility of the strong is to nurture and protect the weak, not take advantage.

let yourself cry, OK? One of the worst feelings in the world is being unable to cry and eventually it…starts to make things darker.

Names sound nice because no one peeks behind the cover to see the sad face of a poem crying for meaning, while the name of the creator proudly smiles from the title.

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity.

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.

Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.

But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don’t want to do.

Anybody talented in any way - they're called eccentric.