It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

There is no greater companion like books.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to make a friend of an Englishman because he'll come sleep in your closet rather than spend 10 shillings on a hotel.

YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not in front of you yet because I'm too shy, but here's how I sound for now."

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

I don't feel too excited about fashion today People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick.