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

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.

You cannot win without sacrifice.

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.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

I like the Wu Tang Clan a lot.

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

I find as much inspiration from the forerunners of jazz as I do the modern-day innovators of jazz.

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.

It is hard to write about politicians, see them at such close range, and still think of any of them as heroes.

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.