Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

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 loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill.

...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.

When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous.

I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?

When there is cheating, the cheating needs to be called.

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

It's right to learn, even from the enemy.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.