A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

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.

Our thinking makes our life

It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.

They blew out a breath and did the thing all heroes must do—they took that terrifying first step.

I have titles floating around in my head; I have sculptures floating around in my head. It's like a collage.

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

As President Obama is inaugurated for a second time, the biggest political surprise is that gun control is now key to his political legacy.

Being six feet off the ground does give one a sense of superiority.

Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain because they don't have coal, oil or hydro power.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects