Half a loaf is better than none.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

The more the merrier.

It takes nine tailors to make a man.

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.

The fuse is lit. You can run all you want to but you leave a trail of gunpowder in your wake. There’s going to be a reckoning eventually.

Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.

Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

But a big paradigm shift is staring us in the face. If I left things to someone else despite having my own thoughts on it, I wouldn't be true to myself.

'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'.

But I think there is a widespread opinion that the support system for athletes should be more firmly established.