Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.

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.

You are to use this one life to make a difference in your world. You are to invest your time and not waste it.

We need to teach our kids to be tough: the system may be synthesized to protect them from bullies, but who will protect them against a system gone wrong?

It is the people who innovate that inspire, and innovation is not born of the status quo.

Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

He stood straight then, moving to stand directly in front of me as he dropped low and bowed dramatically. "Your Majesty.

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up - 'cause they're looking for ideas.

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

Amy, since when do you have a boyfriend?

My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.

One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.