Credulity is the sister of innocence.

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

Don’t ask for miracles. You are the living embodiment of all the miracles in the world.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

When I had kids I sort of went into a hole for a few years and I think when I came out of that, I started to really become myself and know what works on me.

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much.

Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.

You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.

I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.