The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Opportunity does not knock

I can't create music if I'm wearing a mask and not being myself, and that was the problem with The Czars.

Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.

For you to have real love, you need to be able to move past your self.

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

Style is what one creates....glamou r is a state of mind.

Never say never - I certainly have those dreams, and I hope that it happens at some point,I hope I get to see those stage lights.

When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.