Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.