All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

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.

I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age, ' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

I told my whole life story in my book.

Listening to nature's operating instructions.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world?

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.