I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

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.

Gracious blessings, power for great deeds.

I try to smile at her, but I can't extend my flexibility training to my mouth, it just won't move.

...having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat...

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

The essence of cinema is editing.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

I'm very clear about what I believe.

Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way.

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

I'm a farmer's market girl, so if you go and get beautiful, fresh fruit, that's local, and it hasn't been frozen yet, it's pretty fantastic.