O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

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.

Nobody as the right to give up on a whole generation before it's even had a right to prove itself.

Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

I'm big on tomato mozzarella salad. That's my favorite all-time food.

The end is now the beginning.

One person's fashion is another person's disaster.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

Well, I like to write poetry. I'm a published poet.

Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.