A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

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.

We’re seastnan, we live to protect, sometimes we die and I can’t think of a better way to go than fighting for someone I love.

Because your soul, on this soulless planet, sticks out like one star in a starless sky. And it’s beautiful.

A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.

When you discipline a child you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyones responsibility.

When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.

Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree!

I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.