A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

My greatest gift ever is public embarrassment and shame

It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

Honour without profit is a ring on the finger.

I wish, by the way, that I knew who separated Time from eternity; there seems only one thing to me, and I always feel that I am in eternity.

Woe to the dupe that yields to Fate!

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.