To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned

The world is a mess and I just need to rule it.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

Communication is the key and saying your words with kindness is the way to go.

It's the person that calls you up because they're eating at ‘our favorite spot, ’ and it made them think of you and miss being there with you. That's a friend, to me.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Offend her and she knows not to forgive Oblige her and she'll hate you while you live.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.