Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

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.

Imitate the traits of your creator

Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

My grandmother, whom we call Biel, thinks it's very unbecoming of me not to smile for the paparazzi. So every time I see them, I think, 'Smile for Biel!'

I'm a very understanding person. That's something I was raised to be aware of - not everybody has the same shoes to fill or walks the same way or is on the same path.

Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

You connect with who you connect with, and if your feelings are strong enough then you'll make that work.

War mages ordered, threatened and bitched. They didn't deal.

I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now

When life gives you lemons, get tequila and salt.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.