Wine is a cunning wrestler.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

I watch a spider outside my window, how she carefully weaves a dreamcatcher in the corner. Just for me.

A vision is best presented as a story that people can relate to.

You live by the cake, you die by the cake.

I am happy being based in Leeds, I feel settled.

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.

Not everything has to be immediate.

I'm not squeezing the balls. That's not part of my process.

Get transported back to the seventies !

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.