Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

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.

We only knew then that there was always the war, but that we were not going to it anymore.

Mend it, fix it, make do, or do without.

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

God has two families of children on this earth, the once-born and the twice-born.

Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction - one example of a "truth" found in religion's quest for truth.

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

Something very rare in this day and age is to see performers do something that has never been done before.

You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.