faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.

There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.

It would never do for me to lose my wits in the presence of a man who had none too many of his own.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

It was the smile which runs before a promise.

The very shadows seem to listen.

The hand will often reveal more than the countenance.

a woman with a secret may be a fascinating study, but she can never be a safe, nor even satisfactory, companion.

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was. (on Manchester City)

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted.

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.