Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of this kind in Jack.

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me.

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

Don't let the way people are, disrupt your day. Understand them for who they are, the good & the bad, but keep a bond with Serenity.

We need money not only for meeting our own needs, but also for fulfilling God’s plans.

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner ?

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.

The best way to show true gratitude for all our blessings is to be genuinely happy.

We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy.

Often you read something about yourself, and either you've been ironic, and that doesn't work in print, or it paraphrases something that you said, and has a different meaning.