The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it.

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet!

Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him.

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

He hated the war; it threatened much more than his lifestyle or peace of mind. It continually destroyed the world of the imagination, the only world where he felt happy.

Sometimes you win by losing.

Once you perceive, you pursue. Once you pursue, you receive.

I don't know that I've ever felt as happy as I did that day, but then again, it was always like that when we were together. I never wanted it to end.

One has to choose a word in English. If you want to be eligible for a literary prize you have to designate it as something.

For life to be meaningful, you must have a challenge.

It is not so much WHERE you live, as HOW you live, and whether good flows from you through your neighborhood