Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

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 beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.

There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

I also have this incredible love for women.

Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.

The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.

I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.

In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all Should make, all together, good cheer in the hall Once ended the harvest, let none be beguiled Please such as did help thee, man, woman and child.