Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

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.

[T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

The first guy asks the second guy, 'Do you believe in free will?' The second guy answers, 'I have no choice.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Keep your mind young by continuing to learn about your business.

I don't want to get involved in the racial situation at the expense of losing fans. I wouldn't say anything too strong but I do know that God created us equal and we're not living up to it.

For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

Everybody loves winning, but we should not linger on the difference between winning and losing... But Is losing failing?

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.