Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

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.

Bad experiences in life make you really appreciate the wonderful ones we are fortunate to have. Let’s embrace this moment we’ve been given and cherish it for life.

Always recycle wasted time

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it.

The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction.

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Better a holy discord than a profane concord.