I see only a little, lady, but I know that your fortune is as twined with his as the ivy to the oak.

If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?

I adored history, not the dry dates and boring battles, but the stories and the people who populated them.

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

The suburbs are incredibly oppressive. I actually believe that the suburbs are much more dangerous than the ghettos.

It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much.

Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.

The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.