But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction...

Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.

It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.

Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.

Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.

Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.

I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.

...Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order." He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat.

If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.

That reminds me of when you used to call and see us before Christmas, the year before last. Somehow–somehow life was all dark and secret and beautiful then.

In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.

One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, "At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

Being real is being true to you.

Be careful your footsteps do not stumble by the stumbling stone.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

Promises are priceless, and a kiss is a kind of promise, too.

My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge, ' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.

Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

No one leaves a long-term relationship scot-free or without conflict.