A hare is not caught with a drum.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Under the penitential gatesSustained by staring SeraphimWhere the souls of the devoutBurn invisible and dim.

Americans need rest, but do not know it.

The true Way is sublime. It can't be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can't read a word.

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.

The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.