There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

What you can become you are already.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images.

Today is a BRAND NEW day—a perfectly good reason to get up and start over. Never give up.

It is very strange to think back like this, although come to think of it, there is no fence or hedge round Time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.

Those we love are the only ones worth crying over.

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

I like having the dough to come and go as I please.

It's true, I don't like the whole cutoff-shorts-and-T-shirt look, but I think you can look fantastic in casual clothes.

My credit card company says I have an outstanding balance. I'm flattered.

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.

If we knew what people had been through, their sorrow and suffering, we would not be so quick to judge.