It takes nine tailors to make a man.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

The more the merrier.

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

I'd rather be miserable and free than happy and caged.

We all have the muscle of creativity in our minds, but for it to consistently give great results it needs daily exercise.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

[America] needs a certain thinking.

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.

I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.