The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.

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.

As the smoke clears, I awaken, And untangle you from me.Would it make you feel betterTo watch me, while I bleed?All my windows still are broken, But I'm standing on my feet.

Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead.

Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.

Relationships take work. It isn’t true love if things go smoothly.

I've always had a fascination with cars and racing, not that I've ever competed.

I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

Everything is autobiographical and everything is a portrait.

When I was a kid I had this funny blonde hair and everyone called me 'Chick' because I looked like Tweety Bird.

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.