Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.

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.

The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.

I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.

Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen.

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

Over the river a golden ray of sun came through the hosts of leaden rain clouds.