The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

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.

As he passed Alistair to depart the library, Bosque said, "I'm pleased you didn't limit your vision. Ambition is the fertile soil in which true power can be cultivated.

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.

Everything I did actually helped to build the revenue, shall we say, of experience, which enabled me to play a variety of roles as I got older.

This marriage is no one's business but our own.

Life has a strange way of working itself out

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.

I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided

I know I often get a job because of how I look. I hope that I keep the job because of how I act.