If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

You are human and fallible.

What if the Devil doesn't know he's the Devil?

You all know I love L.A., but tonight I really love L.A.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

I lost my job as a cricket commentator for saying "I don't want to bore you with the details".

I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over