Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

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.

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.

A man who is deprived of criticisms is a miserable and a poor man

I am comforted by life's stability by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Inner peace: Don't leave home without it.

Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.

Fear dims when you learn things.

Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.

Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.

People often talk about me as a singer, but they don't often talk about you when you're a woman as a songwriter.