True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.

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.

If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock . . .

If you capture someone's heart, you will eventually get his hands and feet as well.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

It wasn't about me trying to lose weight. It was all about emotions.

The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.

You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies.

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, shoot with your whole heart.

Live through deeds of love, and let others live with tolerance for their unique intentions.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.