Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

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.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first.

He did not have anything on him except her thoughts, except the good times he had once shared and the bad times he so desperately wanted to forget.

I don't know why I ever helped you.""You like broken things.

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have it

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.