Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.

Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down.

There are as many ways to live as there are people.

Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.

If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.

There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.

I grew up with a very strong Irish accent.

Marriage ... is still the imperfect institution it must remain while women continue to be ill-educated, passive, and subservient.

I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.

But my favorite part in my body are my dark circles. They define me. They reveal my melancholy.

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!

You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.