A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

I will not talk of my own happiness, ' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.

I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.

Camouflage with a defensive grace and bounce back with joy.

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack.

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.

When we play, we must realize, before anything else, that we are out to make money.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.