Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

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.

To be truly grateful for the kindness of other and to have those you love in your life is a great and powerful emotion.

Here have I come to die, ' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?

The whole romanticized sad clown thing, we have to get rid of that. That has to go. That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

Buddhism in one long prayer.

There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching.

Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.