That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.

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.

You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

When things are going really well, we should take time to notice it.

All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret.

I like comedy but I guess I don't think [my art] is that funny, either. It's too dark and a bit weird in places to be genuinely, uniformly hilarious and function as comedy.

I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when I wasn't able to control it.

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.

I was surprised when Nixon passed the test and showed up in heaven, but, I guess Hitler threw off the curve for our century.

We are made for the same home and power that raised Christ from the dead.