The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.

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.

Sometimes God let us experience the storm so people who give us importance could calm us down.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces marriage is also three meals a day sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

I went to Europe and, as I've been told, ate my way out of a career.

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.

I really wanted to work and become independent.