The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick: this is the physician's aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.

My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion.

Everything can be achieved through gradual steps – one small step at a time: overcoming fears, fulfilling dreams... anything you wish to be different from the way it is.

To find your way you must first take the steps

I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul.

To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!

Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless

Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.

The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.