One swallow maketh not summer.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

The more the merrier.

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

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.

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

Convictions are prisons.

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges

Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.

Things... well, things suck sometimes. And sometimes you can fix it. And sometimes you can't. It's just the way it is.

Outer order contributes to inner calm.

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.