Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

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.

There is no pleasure in fighting a weak opponent

Life is too short to be able to love as one should.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Friendship's the wine of life.

One of the challenges of the movie is there are no apologies or excuses.

I don't like to let my celebrity interfere with me living my life. I like to meet people, I like to talk to people.

To ignore the religious nature of the terrorist threat is to succumb to politically correct delusion.

Less is more when you do a bright, bold lip. Just draw on black liner and some mascara and you're good to go!

Is there a spiritual element to creativity? Hell, yes. Our mightiest ally (our indispensable ally) is belief in something we cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or feel.