All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

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 soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that's for complaining.' Not many people can do what they really like in life.

I'm so used to taping myself and sending it off and never hearing back. I started to believe that nobody actually ever sees my tapes, apart from my agent.

It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.

All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.

No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.

Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have.

Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.