Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

Truth is so often disconcerting.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

A housewife's work has no results: it simply has to be done again. Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought up or not.

Never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up.

We have to make our country rich again before we can make it great again.

Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

I just work. I'm doing shows, and I get love everywhere I go, so I would say I'm doing something right. I don't really sit here and dwell on it. I just do what I gotta do, and keep moving.

O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.