Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

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.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.

Though there are times when it may seem like God is silent, he is never absent.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

President Reagan rushed home from Santa Barbara vacation, from the Reagan ranch when the Korean jetliner was shot out of the air by the Russians.

Does the song of the sea end at the shore or in the hearts of those who listen to it?

[To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

Man is no man, but a wolf

Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.