Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
The truth is if anyone saw my home life I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.
Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.
Anyone can tell the truth but only very few of us can make epigrams.
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.
Don't trust anyone over thirty.
I never found anyone who was good enough who I could trust enough.
You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones I've had since my schooling days when I was 5. And I surround myself with people who I trust and who know me.
Bronagh looks after the kids and without her the family would disintegrate... there are some things you can't discuss with anyone other than your wife. There has to be a strong bond of trust.
The way I look at it everything is a trade. You acquire some money so then you've got no financial burdens but everyone wants your money and so who can you trust? Or you've got no money and you can trust anyone but then you've got the worry to pay bills. Which is worse?