Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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.

Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.

If we can realize that life is always happening for us, not to us… game over, all the pain and suffering disappears.

And be content with such things as ye have.

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

Don't wait for a Gandhi, don't wait for a King, don't wait for a Mandela. You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King.

We cannot trust in our own strength, but only in Jesus and in his mercy.

Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.