No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary.

So many businesses today have wind-up because of fear of failing.

The purpose of it all is love.

I knew a bit but we don't study a lot of British history at school in Australia. We have our own 50-year period to concentrate on.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals

I believe the human spirit is indomitable.

Not all design is for the general good.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.