For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

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.

I write, write and write but I can't find words that define what I feel inside.

There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.

Mr Martinek turned back to Jana. 'Thirty-eight per cent alcohol, sixty-two per cent fire - all the way from Karlovy Vary.

Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.