The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

A king should die standing.

Autumn is hereand I am in love.My heart has taken residence in my mind.I pick the crisp ochre leaves and put them in my pocket.I am in love.

To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control.

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

It is the custom on Africa to always produce new and monstrous things. [Fr., Afrique est coustumiere toujours choses produire nouvelles et monstrueuses.]

He that sowes trusts in God.

I play a nobody in Japan.

We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into light, and still/ Giving light, dying.

Weird love's better than no love at all.

But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.