The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people

Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.

When you become confident of what you deserve, dont allow yourself to settle for less. The power lies in YOU because no one else can be YOU." DREAM, WORK AND ACHIEVE !!!

I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

Even in the days of the tightest credit in 2008, HELOCs [ home equity line of credit ] and home equity loans were being made.

I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it.

You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.