The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

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.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

The majority of the common people do not realize how corrupt the legal system has become until that blatant corruption shows up at their own homes.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable.

Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.

An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable.

I'm going to show you how great I am!

I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad.

There was specific constitutional provision for emergency measures in the case that Abraham Lincoln faced - an insurrection - which no other president has faced.