Sow an act reap a habit sow a habit reap a character sow a character reap a destiny.

By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven't got a clue and ask stupid questions.

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.

The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.

The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to pr

My spirit is free. My heart is taken.

Free love is too expensive.

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.

Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

I've noticed in England once people reach a certain level they feel they have to get married.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.