Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

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.

When you start to focus on your daily positive experiences, you would surely come to realize that there is always something to be thankful for each day.

I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.

Work and acquire and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

I have a garden in my backyard that's completely organic, which I'm very proud of.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

God bless pop music and God bless MTV.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.