If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.

In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.

Everything that has value has its price. Nothing worth having is ever handed to you gratis.