I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

There is nothing like race, is there?

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

You need to do an inventory of yourself to discover your calling and purpose

By exchanging quality time for 'turn-up' times, what many of today's wayward youngsters have become - men and women of the village have failed them.

The people had once created the city. The city now created the people, or, more exactly, the people of Venice now identified themselves more in terms of the city. The private had become public.

I am not the best, but I am capable of achieving the impossible.

As a writer we are our own instruments; we need to protect our instrument, because no one will protect it if we don't.

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Pit Riley had a lasting effect on us as players and the coaching staff.

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

O Lord Most-wise, strengthen us by Your power that we not fear the non-believing world neither when they lash us with whips nor when they insult us with words for Your sake.

You run for forty-five minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you hang out and talk tough