Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

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.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

Leaders know the great deal of productivity that comes out of a strong self-esteem. They help others to develop this esteem so that productivity can increase.

The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.

One trained dog equals 60 search-and-rescue workers.

Love lost can be found again.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.

Be happy. It really annoys negative people.

It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.