Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed, whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time, which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

I, too, was fiercely independent and thought I could make two equal four.

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

When you say 'design, ' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.

Practice your swing until it becomes a habit of mind and muscle.

The breath of springtime at this twilight hour Comes through the gathering glooms, And bears the stolen sweets of many a flower Into my silent rooms.

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?