Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.

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.

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.

You really don't have to burn any bridges to let go... You don't have to destroy anything. You can just decide to cross over and move on.

Why fight a battle alone when you can fight it victoriously with God on the lead?

Make a differenceWhen I live everyday, I ask myself “What did I do today?To make a difference to the world where I live, And that can happen only when I can be selfless and give.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.

The more history I read, the more everything seems to point to the same thing.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

If you study your own struggles, the struggles of others, even in movies or novels you'll see the root of all their suffering is always attachments