Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

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.

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.

We live a life that is often spent in crowds - parties, festivals and first nights - so it's nice to avoid them.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

On any given night, I can throw a shutout.

There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.

I surrender myself to conscious unity with the highest.