Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

A compensation is something which does not quite compensate.

the only door into her bedroom led through the church.

A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

scales are the grammar of music.

Progress is hard, achievements are easy, and giving up is easier still.

The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.

People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.

I convinced myself I hadn't seen anything, ... I had done this many times before ... I was adept at erasing reality.

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people.

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration

What do you possess if you possess not God?

Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.