Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Nothing great ever came out of common sense.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

It was pleasant to talk shop again; to use that elliptical, allusive speech that one uses only with another of one's trade.

A man may own a ship, but unless he is captain of a crew he goes where the ship goes.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

You can't have a tin can tied to your tail and go through life pretending it isn't there.

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.

Gracious words nourish the soul.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Some women are naturally thin. But there needs to be an appreciation for a variety of types of women because we don't all come in one package. We're not pre-destined to all be a size six.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

I think that's an important part about being in a band, to be able to stand for what you do throughout the whole thing.

What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery.

A sure sign of a lunatic is that sooner or later, he brings up the Templars.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.