A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.

I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.

The subconscious mind has no sense of humor and people often joke themselves into unhappy experiences.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

I just travel all the time.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

There is no success or failure in Nature.

My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to promise but action is different.

Isn't it interesting how men 'leave' their families, but women 'abandon' their children?