In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

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.

Some people gave up on their wishes and dreams because they’d been disappointed too many times in life and just didn’t have the courage to keep hoping things would change

The purpose of four incarnative existence is the evolution of the soul. It is to learn, grow and become master of our own life.

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

The self-righteous never apologize.

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

I really like being a woman. ... I like it more now because I think it's more of a privilege.

Well, I think there are no villains in this world. There are just misunderstood heroes.