Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Everything you do or say is public relations.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask.

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.