Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

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.

O God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!

Don't go looking for trouble.

Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'

A successful current affairs television show seems to be more and more a cross between a music hall turn and a scene in a torture chamber.

Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

If you are not the member of any religion, it means that you are the member of truth!

I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.

I was born to score goals, I feel.

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

Have faith that when bad things happen to you, I belief in an after life, it is better to suffer here on Earth than what awaits you. That is why I pray for pain, and I get it. I do.