Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

Happiness is the moment when you cease to make an inventory of joys; it is a glow, a brightness - never a list.

Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

People take one another for granted

Florida: God's waiting room.

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Poetry became my doctor, my lover.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.