The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.

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.

Dreams are built around the word hello, but in the end fate only knows the word goodbye.

Life is too short to listen to fools, and too important to ignore the wise.

You can get anywhere if you simply go one step at a time.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

I don't think you could pull one Bob Marley song that didn't have quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

To love is to lose control.

By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.

Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.

I'm not very good at lying.