Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

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.

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from the things she found in gift shops.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.

Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love.

Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.

Hire the right people and get the hell out of the way.

Tasting is an act of pleasure and writing about that pleasure is an artistic gesture, but the only true work of art, in the end, is another person's feast.

Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.