I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Cereal eating is almost a marker for a healthy lifestyle. It sets you up for the day, so you don't overeat.

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Old age is a shipwreck.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

I've always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holder...

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a...

They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other times, other cultural backgrounds, brilliant minds who give us a new perspective on life and the world...

They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of...