Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.