Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

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.

Knowledge is power but too much power tends to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

Everything changed...even the things we didn't want to.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.

Each man kills the thing he loves.

I was pretty quiet as a child.

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

Thats the worst thing, I don't really care if people say I'm a bad actor, I can like work on that, but if they just say that he's ugly thats just like “oh.. really?

If you don't respect your time, no one will respect your time.