A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Scandals are like dandelion seeds--they are arrow-headed, and stick where they fall, and bring forth and multiply fourfold.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.

Many a man who falls in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

If you can put your five fingers throught it, it is a gate, if not a door.

Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat.

The biggest thing that I felt basketball could do for me was help me get a good education.

Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words.

No one seems to care. Certainly, no one in the million dollar fund-raising cancer clinics are excited over the almost miraculous ...record of...Krebiozen.

Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie... Would that be intimidating?

The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil and gas.

Avoid the question 'why me?.' It saves a lot of grief