If you've brains it's better than beauty - brains last, beauty doesn't.

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

Well, hope for your thrilling career - but remember that if there is to be drama in your life somebody must pay the piper in the coin of suffering. If not you - then someone else.

Steal not this book for fear of shameFor on it is the owners nameAnd when you die the Lord will sayWhere is the book you stole awayAnd when you say you do not knowThe Lord will say go down below.

Never on painter's canvas livesThe charm of his fancy's dream.

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.

Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.

Reading illuminates our path with the brightest light.

I would rather be a poor man in a rich country than a rich man in a poor country.

Trouble's made us kin.

Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune.

It's [the word “sorry”] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.

...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.