"When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer."

“Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.”

Source : Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.107, Paulist Press

“When we have the football, everybody’s a player.”

“In order to have a lasting career you'll need to spend time performing live to build your own audience, as it's not all about social media. Word of mouth still rules.”

“There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.”

“When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.”

“We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.”

Source : Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.127, NYU Press

“My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.”

“As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.”