The whole past is the procession of the present.

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.

I sailed on the cold air currents above the rooftops of Paris. I could see the river, the Louvre Museum, the gardens and palaces. And a mouse-yum. Hang on, Carter, I thought. not hunting mice.

Surrender doesn’t have to be a heavy, solemn thing. It can be a joyous relief. Finally the burden is off you.

We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.

As a student of enlightenment your attitude should not be to become enlightened. It should be to learn.

March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.

What I know is you can't go back. You can't press delete and re-key your life.

If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?