The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."

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.

We glorify God when we celebrate people’s gifts

I know a feeling like that only comes once in a lifetime, and I think you should follow your heart’s desires. I believe in love, and I know love conquers all.

I'm happy to have been a positive influence.

People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they?

Dangerous objects are glamorous places to be.

What if this present were the world's last night?

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.

I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting but I try not to look like it

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.