My greatest fear: repetition.

Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal -- always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.

Luigi Barzini

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

Sean Bean

The most challenging part of being a dad is self-restraint. So often your instinct is to teach and tell. I am constantly reminding myself to listen to them.

Michael Chiklis

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Jos

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Benjamin Disraeli

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

David Lloyd George

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Benjamin Disraeli

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

Sir Winston Churchill

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson