I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.

The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

Anything worth doing is going to be difficult.

You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it.

There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

I need to put bread on the table man

But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights.

Extending your hand is extending yourself.