Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

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.

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.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

Life is a sail boat ride. Wind, the destiny. But dammit, you are the sailor!

Time had taught him that whether his sins were pardoned or left unforgiven, they would remain committed. Tomorrow he would hopefully choose wiser, with a stronger measure of compassion.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

This is the Rock, sweetheart, ” the owner added. “There’s no tragedy you can’t profit from.

You are so weak. Give up to grace.The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.You need more help than you know.

Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?

Until someone else does... marry yourself

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.