At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.

...one of the best things about running is that no matter how fast you've run in the past, running fast in the future does not come easily or with any guarantees.

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.