We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

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.

Only this time, now that she knew what it felt like to kiss him, she didn’t want to slap that look off his face, she wanted to kiss it off.

It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.

The mosquitos were gone from the porch, and surely when they abandoned the conflict the war with Time was really done, there was nothing for it but that humans also forsake the battleground.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong

If you're a bird... I'm a bird.

When I was 18 I was just absorbing everything around me: whatever happens, happens. I was so naive and willing to ride whatever wave life threw at me.

Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.

Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.

Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.