Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me

The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire.

Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.

Where did Gabriel get a lily, In the month of March, When the green Is hardly seen On the early larch?

I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it reasonable to care about their promise and criticism.

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.

A great screenplay is the most powerful bait in Hollywood.