Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

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 need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.

Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

I accept all awards. I like them.

Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

I'm a lager drinker. I'm quite a stupid lager drinker. I do like my lager and mashed potatoes.

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.