When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

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 test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.

Canada, or as i call them, America Light.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.