Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

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.

The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other.

We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

I should have known growing up and not having any money ever that I should have kept every dollar that I had.

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

Joy is spiritual and far grittier than happiness, and far more robust.

The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control

Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]