God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

God help me, he thought. God help all us poor wretches who could create and find we must lose our hearts for it because we cannot afford to spend our time at it. (“Mad House”)

Be on the right way and go in the right direction. Once you are never going back, you will progress day after day, little by little.

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

Battles are won and lost before they are fought.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'

It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes.

I like being employed, you know. That's my favorite kind of acting.

The global business climate is likewhatever, dude.

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks