Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they're not compatible. It's so hard to draw the line.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

All women are natural born espionage agents.

He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.

A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience.

It takes years to make an overnight success.

We are the products of fate, from beginning to end

Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in!

The only promise life fulfills is its end.

What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.

Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.

I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen.

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border.

As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.