Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

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.

It just feels like meeting him again was like seeing a blank paper ready to be sketched, a different idea to be drawn.

A human's best training is with his shadow. You have to fight with your shadow.

Children read their favorite books to death, she said. They are careless in their devotions. They rip the pages, scribble, and spill things on them. And they are demon book thieves.

O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!

The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.

The stronger a brand’s point of view, the greater its voltage.

Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race -- to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly sympathies and affections.

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.