Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

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.

Are you disappointed with society? If you are, I challenge you to take the first step. I challenge you to look at yourself.

At any given time, there are ideas and images that can only be communicated indirectly.

Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

I'm European. I don't like wearing tops. And I don't like tan lines.

If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

You create your own audience, and your own community of peers, and in some ways you create your own forebears as well.

On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight

My walk is consistently made fun of.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'