Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.

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.

Nature is saturated with deity.

I love being onstage. I love the relationship with the audience. I love the letting go, the sense of discovery, the improvising.

The memory of the American public is about six weeks.

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.

Life wasn't meant to be easy.

This is your life, Larry. Learn to enjoy what you've got.

I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.

If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.