He that can work is born to be king of something.

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.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

A bomb is a bomb, what's the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it's about how to use it.

Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.

Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. That's what the Mafia does.

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

One thing I love about Josh Turner is his faith; that's why I looked up to him so much.

I think it's the person's conviction that really carries a person.

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?