In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.

How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

Good design is not an applied veneer.

I'd hate to compare art to life but I think a movie is an entity of its own, and when it's done, you want everybody to like it like you want everybody to like your children.

The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

As long I still have a breath left in me I will dedicate myself fully to China’s reform.