Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy.

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.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history of the world.

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.

The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.

Simplicity is an asset, not a weakness... The smaller the idea the happier I am.

I don't think about better. You just want it to work. You want it to work and you have your guide with the script. You want it to exist and complete.

Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellations.

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being called the second.