You cannot win without sacrifice.

You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

A large family party is rather too much like a flight of tomtits; everlasting twitter, but no conversation; gregariousness without companionship.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

This funny thing we call love, how simple it may seem. To say it is sometimes enough but to feel it is a dream.

Modesty and chastity are twins

I didn't want to be on a major label. I wanted all the attention and the noise to go away because I wanted to be something a little bit more substantial.

I lost 28 pounds in my divorce... because that's what a soul weighs.

Being short works for me.

Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea-it only starts with an idea.

I spent so many years trying to become an actor, trying to be a person that I wasn't.

Everybody's got their problems. The important thing is not to complain about it.

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.