The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

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.

Perfection is not just about control. It's also about letting go. Surprise yourself so you can surprise the audience. Transcendence! Very few have it in them.

Patience is produced in the midst of storms

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that

A rhinestone skein, a jeweled brocade of light, –the city is a garment stretched so thinher festive colors bleed into the night.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

I am blood type O-positive, which I remember by staying 'optimistic positive.'

Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.

You want me here. (Artemis) Yeah, like an alien rectal probe up my sphincter.' (Acheron)

Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.