Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!

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.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.

You know what I realized? No one else lives in my memories but me.

Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.

I was always 'awake'...Some part of me clamoring for NEW insights and NEW ways to make the world a better place.

Too bad the smile was on the face of the wrong man.

We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe, give ourselves empathy, (b) scream nonviolently, or (c) take time out.

When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.