The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.

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.

Has anybody ever told you you’re a remarkably cynical person?”“I like to think of it as learning from experience.

Nevertheless, likin' is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the 'arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness.

Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them in like a circus hand.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.

The need to document my insanity is an affliction I have not yet cured myself of.

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.

There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful.

Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.

I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.