We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.

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.

The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.

Without civilized social graces, not only is life more difficult, but a positive first impression can be destroyed as fast as it is made.

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .

I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.