Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

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.

Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender.

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.

Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day.

More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring.

So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.

[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process.