I think we should let our guards down a little bit more.
I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.
A number of people have tried it anyway, some survived, some were injured and some were killed.
I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.
I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.
Our biggest fear is that the 4,000 migrants who are in athens head up here and the place will become overcrowded.
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
Talk of the wolf and you see his tail.
I find that using real people as models keeps me from getting too formulaic in the designs of characters.
And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.
I've been riding Valegro since he was four or five years old.
The success of a man is through the soles of his feet, that of a woman is from her legs.
See a pin and let it lie, you'll want a pin before you die.
As in political, so in literary action, a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.
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.
Silence was never written down.
He that is warm thinks all so.
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.