The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

The shortest answer is doing.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Two heads are better than one.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Many things are lost for want of asking.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Turns out making a dramatic exit is a lot harder when you have to stand there and wait another twenty minutes for a boat to dock.

The thing about stone is you don't get to the heart of it. It stares back into you, its secret intact and inviolable.

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Feeling better is temporary. Transformation is forever.

Men are much more agressive with their advances.

Above all things I believe in love.

There is no greater spellbinder of peace than the name of God.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.