The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

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.

Are you busy proving your worth or living it? A critical distinction

I love the way you make me feel. I was incomplete without you.

Taking over Kingston Shoes would be the final string that would unravel and cut them off from one another for good.

Heaven's the place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you.

When I have the beard on I have people behind me in traffic honking their horn. I'm thinking "how in the world?" But it's the beard - it's kind of the stand out thing.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

The job of the baby is to learn.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

....Nature imposes nothing on you that Nature doesn't prepare you to bear.