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.

Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason.

When you embrace the things you do not understand, you understand what is embraced

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?

You can't have ego and gratitude at the same time.

I didn't want to play by what rules are in Hollywood.

My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.

Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

When I was in court I was the judge; when I was out of court I wasn't. Most people didn't address me as judge when I was in public.