Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.

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.

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb?

Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

I've never really had time for romantic relationships. I have much more important things to worry about, like saving the world from zombies.

What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.

I am not a police fan at all.

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.