Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

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.

Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.

Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to “suppress sin”. If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer.

You have to be willing to be a live performer, if you want to make money as an independent.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

It's a terrible thing to be a worker exploited in the capitalist system. The only worse thing is to be a worker unable to find anyone to exploit you.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

'Sons of Anarchy' is always murky.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.