Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.

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.

A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb!

The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.

The basis of all education is to learn by doing.

Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little constant and the rumours so little founded on truth

I have my own method [of acting]. I come from, I've interrogated people; I come from an undercover background, so it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

Your circumstances don't dictate your future. ... Your circumstances don't limit you.

You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief

Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.