Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

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.

I think it's important for the people to see the government is functioning.

On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.

I'm as good as I can be right now, i don't see anything that I need to really change or do differently. I'm on top of my game.

Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?

I don't believe in sharing my money. If I go out and work my nuts off and make some money, I don't feel that I should have to share it with my community.

I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.

In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.

I did an instrumental jazz album. That was my first album.

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.