Song is the heroics of speech.

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.

You know what truly aches? Having so much inside you and not having the slightest clue of how to pour it out.

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

Holiness is irresistible. If even 10% of the world's population had it the whole world would be converted and happy before the year's end.

This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except getting out of one.

The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.