Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

I understand a lot of stuff for a lot of people, how??You won't get the answer!

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

An unhappy life is a life not lived.

deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone.

Middlesbrough is the second greatest place to live in Britain! Behind Hartlepool.

Tact is for people with too much damned time on their hands.

My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.

For how tiny the world, This ant's egg-and the sky!

We just wanted to build the best thing we could build