Genius does what it must talent does what it can.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Betrayal converts our innocence to wisdom if we can let go of pain, bitterness, and fear and create enough self-love and safety for ourselves to allow it to do so.

Just a child. All this time we've feared you, sought you. And you're nothing more than a human child.

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.

Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches, and here is my heart which beats only for you.

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

War among men defiles this world.