Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

Do not trust and depend on someone as a godfather but accept God the father of all fathers.

True love doesn't demand..It only loves.

The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.

Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.

I just don't know how to date.

A smile and a laugh are the duct tape of life; they can fix anything.

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.

I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.