For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

I do not want anything on this earth except the warmth of your pure love.

Maybe that's what I needed. Another tattoo. Some pain on the outside to ease the pain on the inside.

If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?

Ah, there, " said Morgan, "that comed of sp'iling Bibles.""That comes--as you call it--of being arrant asses, " retorted the doctor.

Committee: A group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

Never get out of bed before noon.

When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?

'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.