You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

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.

If you study the scriptures continually, you find sacredness of life.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

My manager wants me to dress like a nun and I want to dress like a teenager.

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

I waited a lot of years and I dealt with a lot of criticism about certain things on my face, and once I turned 21, I still felt that I wanted to change that, so I did.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.