It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

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.

She's magic, Cassandra. A single flower blooming in an endless desert.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.

That's a big love letter," she says, squinting. I know what I'm going to say and for a moment I wish there was a film crew documenting my day-to-day life: "I've got a big heart," I say.

LIFE = (L)ive (I)N (F)ull (E)ffect!!!!!!!

If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.