A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

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.

It looked like the kind of place where people were shot over the rent money.

Don't devalue yourself, you are the world's most precious stone.

Never settle for anything less than your best.

I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.

The world should always be concerned whenever a vast human rights violation occurs anywhere on the planet.

We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We're the people party and we're going to stick up for the people.