There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

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.

A beautiful face will age and a perfect body will change, but an awesome person will always be an awesome person.

You don't invent circumstances, but when they happen they reveal human nature.

I've always had an enormous sense of independence. But I know that sometimes I can be too independent. It is important to be able to share your life - so that is a work in progress for me.

It's important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it's our baby. Genetically it's ours. It's our embryo. We feel very connected.

Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.

I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

I am stopping so I can be a full time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.