All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.

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.

To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face.

the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.

If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

As much as I disagree with Sarah Palin, there's no denying that she was the victim of sexism.

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion.

I know a lot of people think of me and they like, oh that girl is really sexy, that girl is really put together, she would never do something as unladylike as a beet eating competition.

Plagiarism saves time.