What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

A clever person solves a problem

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

Strive to be the very best at whatever you undertake in life.

It's never too late to change your luck

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

I don't like corporate diversity workshops.

Yes, very often! But at the same time I realize that I can't live without rhythmic gymnastics. It's the most important thing in my life

I think it's more than whether or not you win or lose. It's having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down the stretch with a chance to win.

What I've learnt is never to work with the person you are in a relationship with because sometimes you need a break.