I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.

Success means your thoughts are worthy of everyones consideration.

Most of us don't want to be outsiders.

If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

The Holy Bible is Divine oracles.

What you've done isn't the only thing that defines who you are. Words are just as powerful as action. They can aspire action in others, can't they?

Life is never a competition.

In trying to count our many blessings the difficulty is not to find things to count, but to find time to enumerate them all.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.

I love Ali MacGraw and her style - I'm into vintage '70s outfits at the moment.

I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.