There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

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.

The thing about rabbits, sir, is that everybody has one. I'd like to see you step up to the goat-class where I feel you belong. Frankly you look more like a goat man to me.

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

...and when you’ve known me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.” “Even the lies?” “Especially the lies.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

I think at this point, safety isn't a feeling, it's a process. Starting with trust.

I think its very important to not be afraid to experience joy in the middle of sorrow.