Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won't resent the fact that I want them to work hard, as well.

Nothing does so much to help those who suffer as to know that somebody cares.

Confidence is a resolute state of mind by which you believe nothing is impossible.

I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

I'm Liberace without a piano.

Nothing is more useful than the useless.

I'd like to keep singing - whether that's small or big. To stop singing for a living would break my heart.

Find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it.