The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

What's the possibility of the ability of doing nothing?

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it.

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

I loved Thirteen and I loved Pretty Persuasion, and was always just so blown away by her [Rachel Evan Wood]. It was nice, and sadly, it is so rare.

The gift of the Holy Ghost is as important to man as sunshine and water are to plants.

I find singing some of Foreigner's older songs are a little reckless and not exactly who I am now.