He that will learn to pray let him go to sea.

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

Do well and right and let the world sink.

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

A cheerful look makes a dish a feast

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

Show me a liar and I will show thee a thief.

Steal the hog and give the feet for alms.

Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.

Wouldst thou both eat they cake and have it?

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

‎"The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them...

It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!) "I trust you do what you must " life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.

American economy is tricky. If you stay in the game you're in a good position for the upswing. If you're not in the game you can't win.

Men make history. History does not make the man.

He's always been absolutely gorgeous and had that charm, but he was in a steady relationship until quite recently, so it's only of late that all the girls are like, 'Oh my God, oh my God'.

Youth is everywhere in place.

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars, and I knew, beyond any doubt, that everything was going to be alright.

When you become who you wish to be, there is no need for envy.