A bad penny always turns up.
A barking dog never bites.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
A change is as good as a rest.
A dog is a man's best friend.
A fish always rots from the head down.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
A golden key can open any door.
A good beginning makes a good ending.
A good man is hard to find.
A person is known by the company he keeps.
A house is not a home.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
A leopard cannot change its spots.
Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.
We've got a great team sport, but we harp on about individuals. It's a bit contradictory.
A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal.
The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was so great.
I think I've been a very good student of all aspects of being in Congress. I think I'm always working hard to get an 'A.'
We must always strive to achieve perfection, even when we know perfection is not entirely achievable.
Leave the euro? Surely yes.
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
Thankfully, TV has given me another platform to showcase my versatility.
You must keep quiet or say only things that improve silence.
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.