In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

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.

Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness

I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer.

You'd be surprised what I can do with a butter knife.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

Back then though, you had a few months of training, and then you were just thrown into it.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

I am a woman. My life is a long, strong, twisted rope, made up of a number of human relationships, nothing more.

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.