God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

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.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One's destinationis never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?

Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit.

Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.

All my life's about is cracking up people and them cracking me up and trying not to think about dying. That doesn't cost very much money.

Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.