The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.

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.

Exposure and experience is all, what counts.

Just as you can’t rehearse your way to success, you can’t design your way there either.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

Let's go to the food court and try some food.

The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it.

The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.