A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

When you lack self-esteem it’s easy to keep attracting the wrong people into your life.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

Most of the time, people look at a piece of art online when it is just a few blocks from their house. Changing the way you walk home everyday fills life with surprises.

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.

Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.