I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.

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.

Too much time is wasted listening to the noise of the mind - and too little is spent living from the love and power of the heart.

The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the trajectory of a gauss round.

A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.

Songs aren't owned by anyone.

I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Anywhere you can take Jesus Christ with you is all right to go.

Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break

It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.

My goal is to create an image that would remind you of something that you haven't seen before.

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.