Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

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.

There's no romance in geometry, " Lindsey answered. "Just you wait.

Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.

The burden of my anxiety is not my child's.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

I had a ton of animals; I had a goat growing up, a bunch of rabbits, a vegetable garden.

You never know what kind of impact you can have on someone by just saying hello.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.