The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

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.

Other girls play with soft toys, ” I said, “and you play with knives…

New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.

If you never noticed, it never happened.

My thoughts and wishes are all that surrounds, mysteries hold you then fly you away. You know you are my life, my lady of dreams.

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.

For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.