Power should answer by action, not by speech.

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.

You don't have to be a poet to express you feelings to her, just say whats in your mind and she will relate.

Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.

I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff, ' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare

Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.

So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?