Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

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.

We no longer find out identity or value in having the right theology or being a part of the right denomination.

There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.

Even the people who do great jokes, [it's] always coming out of a very real place.

Now I just bake when I'm bored and I'm not working and I don't want to go out. I'll just get recipes and bake them here for myself, honestly.

I never trained in any acting, other than just joking around and doing my own dinky little videos.

That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.

Those who do not trust enough should not be trusted.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.