It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

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.

If people doubt you, then you made progress from "who cares?

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel.

Laughter is the best medicine

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

You can learn to direct yourself to be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening with your body.

I've had so much fun working on 'Shameless.'