I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

If people call your work perceptible, be it in positive or negative terms, do ask them about what made them draw that conclusion.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

Silence is an ornament for women.

I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.

Basic anatomy. That has got to be the ongoing frustration: Why can't my fingers do what I want them to do? Not being able to play what I hear in my head - that is the ultimate source of frustration.

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

I want a trade that is not trickle-down trade, but trade that recognizes we're in a global economy.