A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend, which neither heat, nor cold, nor misery, nor place, nor destiny, can alter or diminish

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.

Let the falling out of friends be a renewing of affection.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

Patience is the highest asceticism.

All work is service. If you aren't serving in your work, you really aren't working.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.

Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.

Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you.

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.

Who is going to be the first to face up to the need for self-restraint in the number of children brought into the world?

I never feel any aggravation from the public.