Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel!

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

The Left neither cares about prosperity nor jobs. It cares about equality

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

It's funny how people who we fight with the most at the end of day are the ones that really got your back.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you're in love.

Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

The Liberals talk about a stable government but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.