Pride goes before destruction.

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.

It's been said before: 'The sleep of reason produces monsters.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.

For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius!

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination.

You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.

I like working as a director most.

Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit.

The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.