Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

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.

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.

When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.

We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground, and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a personal whim.

You have to be an optimist to be in politics.

I'm trying to create artwork that makes people, and myself, think about judgment as a reflex. This is something that must be changed.

When you do something that's going to speak to people, it's going to be because you're really allowing all of yourself to the table in an accepting way.

I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the lights may have been a problem.

I have to be myself, I can't be no one else.

Now life is imitating art.

I don't consider myself an expert in the why.