Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

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.

But sometimes there's a difference between being needed and being taken advantage of.

It is good to love the unknown.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

A good trader loves an active market, you don't make money when the market is static.

A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

Without volunteers, we'd be a nation without a soul.

The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty.