I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

Be aware of the company you keep. You'd be surprised how easily they rub off on you. You don't want to attract the wrong influence.

Sometimes geniuses create nothing new, they organize already existing material into something completely useful in other ways

Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake, And die as fast as they see others grow.

I will never apologize for being me, speaking the truth & giving all of me to the world. I will never apologize for being real & how I feel.

Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.

When Andy Carroll first appeared on the scene he was a tall skinny kid and his coordination was all over the place. He reminded me of a giraffe.

The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother.