Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

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.

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.

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

I got over shy a really long time ago. I'm queer, I'm feline, get used to it.

Little deeds of kindness little words of love Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above.

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Home is important. Its important to have a home.

America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.

He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.

I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well, sorry, that's not life here on earth.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.