He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

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.

Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to be a danger to oneself and others. Too much thinking turns you into that fool Hamlet.

Ear demons are totally real, " Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They're also what tell you to eat the last slice of pie when you know Tia wanted it.

Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.

If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].

Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.

You might be a redneck if you're moved to tears every time you hear Dolly Parton singing I Will Always Love You.

Use justice to rule a country. Use surprise to wage war. Use non-action to govern the world.

Without prayer there is no inward peace.

Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?