Patience is the mother of joy.

How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it?

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to such language, but you succumb.

For poets the wages of sin are poverty.

I feel younger than eighteen but burdened as a eighty-year-old.

Be ready for huge failures to achieve huge success, Be receptive for criticism. It can be constructive too.!

I like to see an angry Englishman, " said Poirot. "They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.

Don't permit negative minds and things to distract you from your happiness. Your life doesn't deserve to miss any moment of it.

But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

People who say it takes money to make money are using the worst excuse ever. . . Create massive value for others by providing a solution where no other exists.

I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.

Boy, you're like a horse. Just now sated with seed, You've come back to my stable, Yearning for a good rider, fine meadow, An icy spring, shady groves.

They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.