Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.

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.

Can a bad tree bears good fruits?

Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

Sometimes people just like being around each other, and good things come out of that.

A single, ordinary person still can make a difference - and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

My childhood was extreme.

The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.