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.

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

The most powerful of words are the one seldom spoken

To be young and to experience the feeling of being alive is a sweet feeling. To feel alive and to have a purpose and a goal to that life is better still.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.

I always trust my gut reaction it's always right.

My mom's now enjoying Medicare. She's already retired. She earned it. But for those of us, you know, the X-Generation on down, it won't be there for us on its current path.

But... what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly. "The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.

They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.