Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.