So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

I will not talk of my own happiness, ' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

I am a vampire, and that is the truth.

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

I love doing movies that touch people's lives.

Kilbane did what he normally does: ran his heart out and gave the ball away a lot.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

Sometimes in real life, people can be a bit too unaccepting.

People don't want to be bothered, if they're not being pressured to change. You have to push people. You have to be the agitator that makes the pearl.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.