Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

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.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

Everyone in life is gonna hurt you, you just have to figure out which people are worth the pain.

I'm not really often recognized - not really. Or if I am, nobody cares enough to come and tell me that they recognize me.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

To be completely honest, I didn't know 'Twilight' was a book.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

But then one day the Lord put us together through our agent and it's been a wonderful match.

I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.