All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

People not only stood to respect it but perhaps their thoughts and heartbeats came to standstill, and only inspiration and patriotism was flowing through their veins.

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.

The disciplined are free.

I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.

I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.

Like many supermodels, I won't get out of bed for less than £3000. Unlike many supermodels, I don't get out of bed very often.

We're not like the distance guys. I have a very simple approach. I don't overcomplicate. People ask me, are you doing 42 steps, 44 steps for 100 metres? I don't know.