By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

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

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

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

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.