No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

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.

But every spiteful word she ever wrote him was effortless love clenched in her fists. Her heart screaming for stability in this fiery game of desire.

Early to bed and early to work might get you a success, but late to bed and early to work will get you a glory.

They are not kidding when they say that mothers are strong women. We need to be strong in more ways than our children will ever know.

In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.

Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher.

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.

Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed.

Emotion constantly finds expression in bodily position.