Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

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.

Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.

Young people do not like to be always thwarted.

You're the mirror, I am your image...

To me, if you are in the same building with Peter Sellers or John Cleese, or any of those guys and holding your own making other people laugh, that's a compliment.

It feels nice to be wanted, to be reading and hearing good things about me, so I have to push myself.

There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats.

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.