The trouble with illusions is that you aren't aware you have any until they are taken away from you.

The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

When it comes down to it, I don't have much in the way of advice to offer you, but here it is: Read to children. Vote. And never buy anything from a man who's selling fear.

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.

The sparrow still falls.

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

Watching him with one eye, she wondered if men ever figured out that they were more appealing when they were pursuing their own work than when they were pursuing a woman.

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

Your mission in life is to determine what You believe—not to accept what someone else tells you to believe.

It takes a long time to become young.

Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

I am quite happy to take a cut. You've got to, if you want to work and continue working.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it, especially if you know it's going to be your last one.

O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.

What we consider to be different depends on what we consider to be the norm.