Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

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.

You will find joy in everyday life with a heart of thankfulness.

If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!

To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears.

Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured reaction.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

When you inherit the level of economic catastrophe that President Obama inherited, it was a real touch-and-go situation.

The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.

Humility is a natural symptom of those who love God.

I love clothes that when you put them on, you feel like you. I don't care whether anyone else likes them.

Just be prepared for a long and often uncertain journey. The good stuff doesn't come easy.