I have always felt that the best gardens aspired to coppice and that the best woods have all the elements of the very best gardens.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
When the prior plays cards, what will the monks do?
We are a peace-loving people.
What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.
On the surface, they may appear to be documentary works, but her background in fashion and in surrealist art is always there.
I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.
I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.
I think Polanski's an amazing director.
There are more threatened than hurt.
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
Global diesel demand is probably pretty good. The problem is too much supply.
It is in nobody's interest that groups should find themselves excluded from society.
Living in worry invites death in a hurry.
But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
He that is warm thinks all so.
Silence was never written down.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
