A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

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.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.

As relates to life on Earth, the fine structure constant determines how solar radiation is absorbed in our atmosphere, and it also applies to how photosynthesis works in plants.

Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now.

I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No... but I served in a company of heroes.'