When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Moonlight is sculpture.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.