“Never sell the bear’s skin before one has killed the beast.”

Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.

In everything we ought to look at the end.

The strongest passion is fear.

One returns to the place one came from.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Cats know not how to pardon.

O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu.

There’s always pressure on the second album – this one has to be the big one.

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another.

If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one

One important element of leadership is taking care of the troops.

Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.

Maybe we could begin entwined – not whole – but one again.

Ancient shamans asked the sick one question only when did you stop singing?

One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.