Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

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.

Why do we claim to know Jesus Christ, but deny him in our action?

Nixon was by nature a excluder. Halderman like to exclude people. When Nixon's need met Halderman's abilities, you had the most perfect formula for disaster. – Jim Shepley

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.

For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we have at home.

I'll break your chains; so sing, Takuto. As loud and as much as you want. You don't have to hold back anything.

J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.

The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism.

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.