When angry count four when very angry swear.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and when he can.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

There's no such thing as a passive audience.

I find it very difficult to compose when I'm not playing.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else.