Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is 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.

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.

In times of adversity, our only anchor is hope.

The whole purpose of choosing to invest as a career is to let the management be constantly worried about his company and let yourself sip your wine

curiosity did not kill the cat

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.