The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

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.

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.

I enjoy doing nothing.

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

We had no domestic attacks under Bush.

That's my job - to make sure everything is great.