Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

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.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

When God opens a new page in your life, make photocopies of it, read it and share it with other people. Some may hear it when you read it, others may tear it when you share it.

I'm running for governor; I'm not running for a legislative office.

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

I'm always curious, but I'm learning things I never thought I'd learn. I get to travel to places I never thought I'd go.

If you want to be among the greatest skiers, you have to win in Kitzbuehel at least once.

I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals.

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.