There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.
Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.
[Bananarama] were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press
You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.
I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.
Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind. . . A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever.