Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

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.

A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet.

Put not your trust in princes.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

Unity cannot be taken for granted.

Just then, lit only by the flicker of his wings,the sight of him was so..right somehow. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou

When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.

To be somebody, you must last.

The religion is a formality. What matters is you show respect to God and your faith in God.

The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.