Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

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.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

I love glamorous women. Hugh adores glamour, as well. Im completely behind women dressing up and looking as good as they can.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from.

Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

Committing to happiness increases your chances for success.