The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

Old age lives minutes slowly hours quickly childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.

The idealist walks on tiptoe the materialist on his heels.

Near the sun is the center of the universe.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Thought the sun is gone, I have a light.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

Oh, my God, this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.

I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.