One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on.

What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you?And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're ok?

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

All problems in computer graphics can be solved with a matrix inversion.

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

Chic is nothing but the right nothing.

I've always held to the belief, though, that people who do too much acting training always look like they're acting, you know?

I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.