The Church of England is the only church in the world that interferes neither with your politics nor your religion

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours.

Lack of sound mind and judgement – the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God

Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . .

Acting is a different discipline. On stage I'm free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.

When a church is spending more of its budget on media than shepherding, something is out of whack. We have gotten things twisted around.

John Boehner is a member of a country club in Ohio. It turns out that the bartender was plotting to poison Boehner. Now wait a minute. Isn't that the movie with Seth Rogen and James Franco?

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.