The sharp employ the sharp.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Self defense is the clearest of all laws and for this reason lawyers didnt make it.

To the true teacher times hour glass should still run gold dust.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one, it flies as well as creeps.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

Judaism is my life. Everything I do is through the lens of Torah.

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

The dearest things I know are what you are.

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

I don't think anyone would say that the women on the United States national team are not great role models and ambassadors. Everywhere we go, we connect with fans, sign autographs, and represent our sport and federation with class.

There's just something so amazing about being anywhere, and some music starts playing, and you just hold up your phone and can find out what it is. You never again have to say, 'That's a great song! Who is it by?'

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe.

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.

Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.

There's nothing like making a decision when you're a football referee. It really pushes you to be very clear - to make that decision and to sell it to everybody who's there. You believe in it, but you have to make sure other people believe in it, too.

I don't think I sound like Janis Joplin. I'm a woman with a raspy voice.

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!

I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was very particular about clothing - it always used to have to go back into the plastic and it used to drive me insane.

Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.

When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and journals, but that's when it switched for me to songwriting. That's when I wanted to do everything. It was like a fire all of a sudden. I started coming to Nashville and moved here when I was 15.

I ain't never seen no talking winning nothing. Been like that since I was little. I was raised like that.

Whatever is on the page is what I'm married to. I'm very prepared. I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.