Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

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.

Life is like a cooking pot. If you cook something good, you well get something tasty. If you cook something bad, you will get something bad.

Perhaps the greatest neutralizer of sadness rests with two simple words : thank you.

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?

While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.

Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.