Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business decision was licensing music that I don't own.

Been making love for hours and, baby, we're still going strong. Girl, this night is ours and I swear I feel it coming on. All I know is when we get through, I ain't going to be able to move.

We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

I like playing weird, kind of shady people.

Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment.