The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

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.

History is all around us and you, my lucky few, are living in some of it..

Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

Keep what you've got till you get what you need, y'all. You gotta give a lot just to get what you need sometimes, y'all.

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

You will always see, if this group is a highly evolved group or on the way up, a movement towards oneness.

There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

You keep distracting me,” I tell her. “All I’m doing is sitting here talking to you!” “Exactly,” I say, and I smile at her.j

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.