The mathematics of high achievement

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.

To open a closed door, use kindness as your key.

So when I saw you lying in the shed there, I thought that even God couldn't be that cruel. You were everything I ever asked for – so maybe you could also be the love of my life...

I grew up in a culture of motorbikes. So I like racing just fine. Quite a lot, actually. That was when I was a boy in Australia. And I never really made the jump to cars after that.

I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.

If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.

I judge each person on individual merits.

I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.

The smarter you are, the more reasons you have to be miserable.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.