Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

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.

Not having a specified launch plan and process is one of the biggest pitfalls in the technology market.

Character is the real you-“the you in you that makes you the you, you are”. “the hidden man of the heart” (1Peter 3:4).

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.

Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

How unfortunate it is to be constrained by what people might say at our funeral or on our gravestone.

I did lots of Shakespeare and classics, and I just kind of became that person. I was a bit of a snob.

Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

The minute you say "I can't", it is another wrong affirmation to your subconscious that you choose to lose.