MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.

I dont have a television. All I have is Netflix and Apple TV and Hulu.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.