Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

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 I must fall, may it be from a high place.

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

I write because if I don’t let it out of my system, I will die with guilt.

Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

I have learned to delegate.

For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.