Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

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.

Find your own joy within and then greater joy will be added to you.

People judge us not by what we think or believe, but by what we do—and when our lives don’t measure up, we lose their respect and they conclude our faith isn’t real.

Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

All people know that they will die, but they don't actually believe it.

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

Out of darkness is born the light.

Let me assure you that all of our pets, and animals of every kind will be with us for eternity on the Other Side.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances