Easy reading requires hard writing.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Through me, I see you. Through you, I see me.

All answers that you seek can only be found within.

I do a lot of rewriting. It’s very painful.

Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.

The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

One of the secrets to life is saying yes to change and allowing things to transition, but I also think you have to mark the time and give thanks for all that it gave you.

My greatest inspiration is memory.

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.