The end of man is action.

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.

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

You know who you are. You have always been other.

Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault...

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

It's about us. It's about trust.

Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.

If you can see it, and believe it, it is a LOT easier to achieve it

Talented people without discipline don't go anywhere.

In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action