At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

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.

Don't allow the faults you've made in the past define the person you are today.

You don't need to become great 1st to step into your greatness. Have you left your comfort zone and ventured out to unleash your greatness?

Rightness of judgment is bitterness to the heart.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

You've had a long working life As everyone knows You can now do nothing at all And then have a doze Enjoy Your Retirement

Once a crowd chased me for an autograph. "Beat it", I said, "go sit on a tack!" "We made you", they said. "Like hell you did", I told them.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

You have to be entrepreneurial and use your name.

If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you

The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.