Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

Only a relationship with Christ can satisfy our hearts. Without Him we have nothing. With Him we have all things to enjoy.

Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen.

You might be a redneck if your grandmother has ever been asked to leave a bingo game because of her language.

When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.

By making the start of the sequence automatic, they replace doubt and fear with comfort and routine.