A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

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.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.

It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can.

Above all, I dislike vulgarity.

I think President Obama is going to be a one-term president.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried.

All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.