Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.
Cash is cold comfort under these circumstances. But make no mistake about it; It is some comfort.
Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.
Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel.
Nine times out of ten you take the first step in creating your own universe by picking up the phone.
A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.
The difference between a calculated risk and rolling the dice can be expressed in one word: homework.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would. . . [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.
And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came across the room, to make the moon, which he detested, rise at Bourton on the terrace in the summer sky.
I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.