A hungry stomach cannot hear.

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.

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

All for one one for all.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them.

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

[Photography] puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

The essence of being human is being creative.

What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

You live once... Why not live to be great?

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.