There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

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.

The spirit cannot exist in a sealed void. It will eventually devour itself or waste away.

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.

Falling in desire with truth and hope is enhancing our soul with a precious love...

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.

All the stuff that keeps you safe from feeling scary emotions? They also keep you from feeling the good emotions. You have to shake those off. You have to become vulnerable.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.

The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.