I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Even if there were no heaven and there were no hell, would you still follow Jesus? Would you follow him for the life, joy and fulfilment he gives you right now?

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously.

And I tell people I'm in charge of children, children I haven't even met yet.

We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.

Clarity precedes success.

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.