Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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.

We keep drifting till we see light. Seldom do we realize that the light was always there!

But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts knavery, and worships stupidity. It crucifies the intelligent, and puts the diseased in dungeons.

Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.

You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.

I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students.

To be a champion you must act like one, act like a champion.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

As long as I'm acting and doing what I love, I'll be happy.

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.