History is philosophy teaching by experience.

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.

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear.

Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat.

More and more, money is becoming a religion.

We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors.

Is God to blame for what I myself have done?

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.

I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.