Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don't know why I was surprised to see elephants.

The old line 'You deserve someone better than me' in this case was not just an old line. She deserved someone who would love her and take care of her and he knew he never would.

You can't expect someone who has been in prison his whole entire life to turn around and become a sweet guy who writes books and walks his dog and has a normal life.

You must resist negative thoughts, negative criticism and negative influences.

I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

Believe that if you make courageous choices, and bet on yourself, then you will have an impact.

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.

New York is only 97 miles from Philadelphia but was the Big Time as no other American city has ever been.

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

I'm into scales right now.

Leadership is the ability to lift and inspire.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.