The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

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.

He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Being joyful is a choice.

Young people are in despair. They want a job, a real job, and we as society are guilty of not offering it.

I met some people in college and I kept cracking away until someone pointed me in the right direction.

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that [American troops] have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.

Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

No man is safe above but he that will gladly be beneath.