There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

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.

It’s amazing that people don’t understand that the more the market is involved and the smaller the government, the lower the price, the better the distribution, and the higher the quality.

Nothing has to be funny, sometimes I just laugh to unclog my soul.

I have no heartbeat

Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there!

The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.

I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen.

I could say I think coulds are pretty, and you'd say they're only pretty to demons.