History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

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.

And you asked why people always expected you to smile in photographs. And I told you it was because they hoped that in the future, there would be something to smile about

I want everyone to stop telling me to lower my expectations.

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.

Want what you have and you will always get what you want.

That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.

I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters.

We are still not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but there are 3,000 Kiss products, a Kiss musical toothbrush, everything from Kiss caskets to Kiss condoms. There are no Radiohead condoms.