The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.

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.

Tears have always been easier to shed than explain.

Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism invites God's wrath.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.

If you are trying to impress a woman, leave any sort of show farting out of the equation.

I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in places just beginning their lives.

Better to die than live in sleep.

In the last stages of a final illness, we need only the absence of pain and the presence of family.

The darkness is my birthright.

The resurrection confronts our world with wonder, mystery, and miracles.

My interest in language is steadfast, but I think each project and its accompanying intentions dictate how language must be used.