The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.

There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.

It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.

In Italy there are two emergencies. This is what I hear, and this is what all the stats say. Employment and security.

Cynics criticize and winners analyze.

I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!