Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

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.

A picture should capture a moment, a place in time you can return to again and again.

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

I think the best music videos are the ones that have nothing to do with the song. Those are all my favorites.

I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.

Houston, we've had a problem here.

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.

Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility.

The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.