Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

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.

If you lock the door on sorrow, how will it leave your heart?

If the mountain remains standing, it is useless to pray endlessly. God is waiting for you to do something yourself.

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason - there's a reason.

The heart wants what the heart wants

I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.

Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on.

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.

For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.

The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.

No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.