No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

But, you never know when The Libertines is going to come along.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

It was a challenge for me to see how I could deal with that at Jil, and I had a lot of doubt about it. I wondered if maybe it was just better to do your own thing in the long run, like an artist.