A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

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.

Why are you being so mean?""Friends tell friends the truth.""yeah, but not to hurt, to help.

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

Such is the compassion, such the love which Mary bears us, that she is never tired of praying for us.

I think it's cool to give people encouragement.

Tennis players go into a press conference, and almost every one of them is the same. We do very little differently on a day-to-day basis.

There's going to be this realm of Platonic forms and then there's going to be this single mind, the 'nous', which grasps them.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.