Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

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.

Happiness is a result of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.

I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.

The God who speaks with utmost integrity must have messengers who represent him well.

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.

The truth is, until you know any different, the island is enough. Actually, I know different. And it's still enough.

I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world.

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.