No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.

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.

Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand.""Of course you don't, " said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.

Awaiting within us is something beyond our thoughts and beliefs.

She could forgive him for missing their dinner date, but she would never forgive him for dying.

A benefactor is a representative of God.

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.

I basically was a precocious little kid.

I cant imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.