Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

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 there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas

There is a powerful for within each of us.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories." Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories.

Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.