Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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.

Lord Shiva, you my sunshine, my soul, Sivoham.

Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

I've made a living out of music since I was 19, which is something I'm really happy about.

Everyone should prepare NOW for this change, for I promise you that it will come, and only those who are ready will survive.

The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace.