If I lost all, at least I would have played for it. It had always been my philosophy that one must play, or be a loser two-fold.

I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.

I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.

Granville did not come to enquire after me, as I had known he would not. I had always considered him made awkward by painful emotion, but now I considered that perhaps hew as only unfeeling.

Patience is seeing each step as a journey rather than seeing a journey as a thousand steps.

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

I'm happy to provide that service. But that's the power of it. A good infographic that's been really worked on looks simple and easy, but it actually required a lot of processing.

Failure isn't fatal, and success isn't final.

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

The moonlight builds its cold chapel again out of piecemeal darkness.

You are what you believe you are.

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling can show off your grit like a smile.