It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

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.

You did not just say that. I have a feeling we're on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other.

Politics is always driven by competing worries.

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.

I never knew about a lot of the outside things

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.

duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

It's 'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler. Can I play? Let's see. Mother Teresa had a mustache. Hitler had a mustache. Mother Teresa is Hitler!

Customers buy 1/4 holes, not 1/4 bits.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.