Thought is the parent of the deed.

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.

There is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty and the perception of human beings as disposable property.

Affection is the source of self-confidence, happiness, security, and a comfortable mental state.

The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

If you try to shut down your angel guidance, that's the path to feeling unhappy and results in addiction.

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you.

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp