Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats.

If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.

People are much more fascinated by your interests than they are by your opinions.

It is perfectly logical and proper to recognize differences between races and colors and creeds - as long as we don't classify them as being better or worse.

Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.

Counterfeit charm is worse than none at all.

Life is the best party I've ever been invited to.

apathy is about as near to the undertaker as you can get.

If there's anything intolerance can't tolerate, it's ridicule!

Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers.

The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.

It will have to be Jem. He's impossible to hate. Even that devil cat likes him.

Squeaking squirrels squandering away their square shares!

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage.

When we pray, it's the Holy Spirit Who makes the divine presence real to our spirits, and then we seem to 'feel close' to a living God. We are spiritually overwhelmed by divine glory.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Man with frailty is allied by birth.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

The lives of all of us have been moulded largely by induction through suggestion.