A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.

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.

The flow of knowledge towards the mind should be moderated by the faculties of the mind itself, based on the acceptability of nothing but the mind.

My hand is clutching Sebastian's, although I'm not sure he's even aware of it after all we've been through.

Waiting is not always a bad thing

I'm so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.

You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Loyalty is that for the lack of which your gang will shoot you without benefit of trial by jury.

He doesn't know what to make of me," Mat said softly. "How very uncommon. I can't think of anyone else who has reacted that way to you, Mat.

Perfect form is the most important thing to have a perfect body, it's impossible to make a painting with a big brush