If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

A habit does not a monk make.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

At the heart of nature's mystery lies another mystery.

Is he always like this?" she said irritably. "Flying by the seat of his pants?""Pretty much, yeah." Oliver grinned. "He's not a planner. But he happens to be the best improviser I've ever known.

With Urban Secrets, I just really liked the idea of wandering around chatting to people.

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else.

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.

The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.