Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

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.

You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of marriage.

You are the universe, so see the beauty of nature and feel the joy of life.

Oh, Gods."His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.

I have to warn you that my bedroom isn't the best place to stage an assault on me. It's where I'm at my weakest, with my bed a mere twenty feet away.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

It may be that we have become so feckless as a people that we no longer care how things work but only the kind of quick, easy outer impression that they get.

I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.

Obedience isn’t a lack of fear. It’s just doing it scared.

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.