For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Greatness unfolds beyond your comfort zone.

Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

That being said, I am not one to feel sorry for myself. I believe it is healthy to honor one's feelings and do the best we can to learn and grow from them moving forward.

Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

If it's enough money, I'll play the North Pole.

The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.