Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.

Adventure must start with running away from home.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

Dare, will, keep silence.

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?

Imagination is the connecting of disparate things in novel ways.

Every sweet hath its sour every evil its good.

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

I have voted for a Republican for president ever since I was voting and since I was 18 years old.

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.

Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.

I believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think the universe is a cold, dead place that is indifferent.

In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age.

If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.