Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

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.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

I hardly ever go out when I'm home.

Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.

... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.

In the prosperous times, you put it in your pocket; in the lean times, you put it in your heart and that's when you discover who you are.

We can all agree that first loves can be a scary thing, and that growing up is hard to do.

Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy's boldest wing.

If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension.

There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.