Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

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.

Mentally I can die, Emotionally I can cry, Physically I can sigh, Spirituality I can fly. If I just try.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

(A)ny time you buy weapons, or build an army, you begin to look for an excuse to use them. Plus, you pose more of a threat to others.

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.

My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.

I still don't know how to read music.

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.