Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

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 purpose of poetry is to remind ushow difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

When does one become free from all tubers (of the mind)? When one becomes free of kashayas (anger-pride-deceit-greed). Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are tubers themselves.

All evil is good become cancerous.

I fell, she laughed. I fell hard, she laughed harder. Seeing that I kept falling till I fell in love.

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got to be sensible in terms of what you eat.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

... law is a substitute for love.

I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life.

The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.