It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.