Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I was raised in the theater and, as it turned out, a TV show was like performing a new one-act play. So, it was really no different.

Nothing is personal. Everything is play.

At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

The challenges and how we deal with them: that's what defines us. Problems don't define us; it's our ability to overcome and transform.

The Friday Night Knitting Club

I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire live wood and kill it?"

I will write a couple of books and become a millionaire.