Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

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.

nature can offer you the biggest gifts only if you are ready to accept.

Praying God’s solutions from the Word releases life, but praying negatively and focusing on your problems only energizes and strengthens them.

I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!

Take life with a pinch of salt A shot of tequila and a wedge of lime Do nothing at all But take your time

I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.