Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for.

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

It could be the make-or-break of getting that job. Obviously, your appearance matters. It helps with your self-esteem. You definitely, definitely want to put your best foot forward.

Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful.

I just love every minute of my life. I love the variety. Every minute of every day I'm meeting fascinating new people, learning and working with wonderful teams of people creating wonderful things.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.