A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Keep your eyes on the future, because that's where the answers are. It's where the hope is.

Everything happens

You’re here. You’re real. Embrace that person you were, and make sure you have reason to like the person you’re becoming. The past you can’t change. The future is what matters.

The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind.

The past can be tamed and controlled.

I don't believe in reincarnation, but what were you when you were alive?

A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words