Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

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.

My mother was tickled and I think kind of proud when my father got hit on my an attractive middle-aged Asian lady who hadn't noticed he was with his family. He was certainly pleased about it.

I just like to write and then perform.

We now have no record of these famous stage plays, so it turned out to be very narrow-minded thinking.

Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

I see in my neighbor the Person of Jesus Christ.

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

If there's a demand of being together in a certain way, those expectations and judgements take away from that space and create an edginess and a cramped-ness to the relationship.

One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.