A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

I like to cook with the philosophy of using great ingredients and not altering them too much.

disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.

I was anticipating that some readers might misread [the book] ROOM itself as a hymn to homeschooling.

My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50.

There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.

As I've always said, McLaren exists to win, and win we will.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be.

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak