There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and the entire company to be pulling in the right direction

On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree

Just growing up in Pittsburgh and knowing different neighborhoods, having family there and just loving it, it's like no other place.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change … agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.

There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads.