A stranger is a friend you have not met before.

The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.

The unsaid rules every conversation.

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

Fiction keeps its audience by retaining the world as its subject matter. People like the world. Many people actually prefer it to art and spend their days by choice in the thick of it.

Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me as a label.

On one side, the mass of a mountain. A life I know. On the other, the universe of the clouds, so full of unknown that it seems empty to us. Too much space.

Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations - many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.