Love not Pleasure; love 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.

Loving someone as fiercely as my mom loves me must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it.

I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books.

As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

The soul of politeness is not a question of rules but of tranquility, humility, and simplicity. And in the taking of tea it finds perhaps its most perfect expression.

No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.

Jesus was a management expert too.

In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.

An ecological approach to the economy is about having enough, not having more.

What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.