Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.

No rose without a thorn.

He who can lick can bite.

The price spoils the pleasure.

Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.

I've always been vertically challenged. I never grew at all until my junior year of high school-if you call that growing.

The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.