If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

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.

Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives.

Any family without an entrepreneur has a limited hope.

The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.

Music gives voices to people struggling to come out of themselves.

Where ever fear shadows.... that always means there is a light shining somewhere.

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.