Be inspired but not proud.

I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.

She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way

All outward success when it has value is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.

A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

If you want to know about what's good in art, you should talk to an artist.

We worry top-down, but we invest bottom-up