A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

Most of the things one worries about never happen.

I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail.

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

I am coming back to New York after five years, and it seems that psychics are taking over the city.

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

When I'm at home I practice everyday.

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.

The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage.

The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.