It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.

Those is seek to profit from the torment of others will eventually pay the piper

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

It was a very limited practice; carefully safeguarded. In 1890, that practice was discontinued.

Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

My days are straight out of the movie Groundhog Day.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

I don't think we surprise people. We try to out-execute them.

My self-confidence didn't come from my appearance, it came from other things that I did. But certainly not my appearance.