"There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men."

"Polanski was very precise. I think he still is."

"There was none of the quiet insolence about this man."

"Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing."

"Us going to have a cup of coffee. Then maybe it all won't seem so bad."

"There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book."

"There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall."

"Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side."

"If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales."

"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it."

"The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose."

"Those that think must govern those that toil."

"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."

"Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future"

"There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

"An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind."

"Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them."

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."

"The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion."

"When we build, let us think that we build for ever."

"In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes."