How beautiful it is to do nothing and then rest afterward.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

I don't want the cheese. I just want to get out of the trap.

With bread and wine you can walk your road.

From a fallen tree all make kindling.

You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.

Don't offer me advice give me money.

Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

Just being with Nakajima made me feel as if we were detached from history, and had no particular age.

He tried not to cry as he wondered if he would ever have a home again.

Girls who are on top of things must have three hundred ways of responding to tired thirty-five-year-old divorced men.

Just don't let the human factor fail to be a factor at all

I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.

She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.

Love has seven names, / Which, as you know, are appropriate to her; / Chain, light, live coal, and fire - / ... dew, living spring, and hell.

When you talk about the world's greatest entertainer you have to say Al Jolson because there was no one like him. Only Judy Garland and perhaps Frank Sinatra got anywhere near him!

I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.