Persuasion is better than force.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Meanwhile 1st April to lie as if they were honest throughout the year.

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.

I am not political as a person.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.

I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.