The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

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.

Every service is a product of double honor

I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans