The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss.

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.

If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes - and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.

In art, immorality cannot exist. Art is always sacred.

Angel... I don't think you understand the lengths I would go to if it means keeping you here with me.' -Patch (PG 262)

I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.

We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did not work. They talk about wanting reform. That doesn't mean they will do it.

Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity.

When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who was smart in business, works hard, and can be sexy and a mom. A powerful but still sexy, nonconforming woman.