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

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 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.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Folly, like its consequences, is dreadful.Wisdom, like its rewards, is great.

The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible.

I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.

As we get older, it's important for us to help hand back some of what we've gained as we've grown older. It should be one of your responsibilities - it's almost like being a mentor.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

Music takes us where words cannot.

My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.