In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit.

A good river is nature's life work in song.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.

I was brought up, ' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.

The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.

Our stable and eternal verities are being challenged. There's a kind of postmodern breakdown in journalism. The breadth of information sources and the speed of transmission are growing

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I am one of the few who felt Gerrard was not a top, top player.

My generation came at a time when photography was advancing by leaps and bounds, creating the impulse to experiment and seek new approaches.

It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.

I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.

And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.

There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life.

It's kind of strange to be in a band for ten years, because you've just given ten years of your lives to it from touring, and you don't know [or] even notice the passing of time.