We arc the miracle of miracles the great inscrutable mystery of God.

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.

I wish you a blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

When I turned to look at you, I was afraid to move again—the moment was just too beautiful to be lost.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.

I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.

Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.

I've always been a workaholic. I reckon, on average, I've had less than one day a year off in my working career.

Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you.

When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

Few things are as essential as education.