One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

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.

Love is pure

Don't die a pauper, don't die a commoner and a weakling.

Most of the seven billion people in this world suffer from malnutrition. Half do not have enough to eat and the rest of us eat too much.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine, can't do you know harm to feel your own pain.

If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

In life, we all get scored on every day. The wonderful thing is, if we do our best with courage and tenacity, we might be outscored but we can never be beaten.

Keeping technology at the forefront, we need to further speed up our defence programme & keep pace with the world.

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.