Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

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.

And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

It's odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever.

We're allowed to explore the world at large on these things; the urban-legend aspect of it is just kind of an excuse.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.

I always believe when you got something to say, that's when you put something out.

Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

Buy gold and sit on it. That is the key to success.

Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.

I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.