The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.

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.

Dawn is ever the hope of men.

I've been beautiful all along.

Don’t hold back and save stuff for the next book. Put everything you have into the one you’re writing, - Michael Connelly

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.

Here in the United States, we've seen the failure of mass programs of redistribution and the fiscal crises to which they give rise. And yet many continue to defend and promote them.

He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.