I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order, during fifty years' business career, from which I had retired.

Experience has taught me to believe that, these human beans are the most insidious enemies man, with a tendency to corpulence in advanced life, can possess, though eminently friendly to youth.

I am most thankful to Almighty Providence for mercies received, and determined still to press the case into public notice as a token of gratitude.

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

The exquisite kindliness of her manner suggested that their relationship was of no possible consequence, that she could not pay him the tribute of hostility.

She wanted to cause him pain for taking a place in her heart she wouldn't have given him if she'd known the truth.

It is good to be different, because difference is great; that's what this music is based on. But lose that energy between the audience and the players, and you have nothing.

I can't tell where the journey will end But I know where to start

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

You really can't please people. I know everybody's attention is on what I'm doing on the floor.

Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod.

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.