To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

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.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

We have a positive power of choice and this is tool we should use to carve greatness out of challenges.

Basset Hounds never get scared. We’re fearless, resolute and know how to season a good lamb chop.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

The music industry seems scary to me. I mean the film industry is crazy enough so the music industry to me seems like the wild, wild West. Like I would just never dare.

If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.

Every morning when I wake and every night when I go to sleep, I'm thinking about what I can do to become a better father and a better person.

There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.

This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.