If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

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.

To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.

I'm afraid of everything I don't know.

King John was not a good man, He had his little ways.And sometimes no one spoke to him, For days and days and days.

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

We were married for better or worse. I couldn't have done better, and she couldn't have done worse.

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.

Someone else's success is not your failure.

I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.