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

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

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.