Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

Act, and God will act.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

A right delayed is a right denied.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

God does not play dice.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.