The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

One of the best confidence builder is experience.

The waves splash against my face, carrying a message: Welcome, you belong here.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

I think that laughter and smiling are some of the best antidotes to ageing that you could possibly have. In general, I pretty much think of myself as still being about 5.

I don't have time for any nonsense.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball.

I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.