Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

A good horse is the best company in the world.

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

Most prisons have wide gates!

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

The land of delight is holy sanctuary.

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

I'm very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Never get your girlfriend a pet that she didn't know she was getting.

That's my sole purpose in life is to sit here today and tell you that you can do this, in any life. You can do this in one of your past lives, in a future life, or right now. I prefer now.

No one saw the recession coming. The UK businesses were solid as a rock, but the issues we had were in Paris, New York and LA. For every pound we were making here we were losing two pounds abroad.

My goal has always been to introduce other people to running. They might accomplish something they never thought they could.

The choice you make, makes you.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.