Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

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.

Where his eyes should’ve been, there was only fire, empty sockets glowing with miniature nuclear explosions.

The pure modernist is merely a snob

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

QVC has been very good to me.

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.

We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's a very demanding thing.