We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.

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.

Olivia, I’ll put on a show in front of your friends, at your work, whenever we’re in public. But I’m growing tired of pretending when we’re alone. Don’t tempt me.

We just want you to be happy. Rand and Marybeth said that all the time, but they never explained how.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

Ps 119:89-91: The settled Word in Heaven makes for a solid foundation on earth and a safe path for today.

Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app!

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.

I don't go to a gym. I find that really hard to do.