There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

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.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.

Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

You just cant predict baseball

We have been saying this, both pre season and before the season started

Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it became a fuel

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.