If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.

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.

A life is like a book of many chapters, some interesting, a few boring, a handful sad, one or two memorable, many joyful and others thoughtful.

I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.

There are no prizes for average performance.

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

If I'm racist, don't think I would have directed shows like 'The Parkers' and 'The Wayans Brothers' or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on 'Diagnosis: Murder.'

I can fight with all actors, I can face them and win, but I cannot fight aliens.

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?