You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.

Some must be warriors, that others may live in peace.

It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.

Sympathy can be addictive and can kill strong men as surely as a diet of nothing but sugar.

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.