A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

He who gives while he lives, gets to know where it goes.

Truth is an acquired taste.

Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.

I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.

Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!

I want to be around for a long time, I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I hope I'll be 50 years old and still making music.

I think its really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.

Moments don't last unless we do something with them.

And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.

You wouldn't say ' You've got the crappest eyes I've ever seen. Your eyes make me physically sick.

I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it.