The press is the fourth estate of the realm.

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.

The world is a marketplace. We all are in business and what we areselling is our unique selves.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.

There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one.That is spirituality.

When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,'

Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

I think that when youre making a story... thats based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.