It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.''I don't think he is, ' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people

Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It's supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.

Warfare cannot be humanized.

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

It may not happen in my lifetime, but if I can play a part in moving things along, then I feel I've done a good job.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.

I think I’ve developed this pattern of running away when it comes time to fall in love and stay in a relationship.

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.

I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.