The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

There's luck in odd numbers.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.

Better to be safe than sorry.

I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

I threw myself so far in your depth that it took me a month to come out and notice I was actually sitting in my room. Nowhere else. Not with you.

America is not an ethnostate. We are not rooted in blood and soil.

I can't help thinking the failed New York bomber would've done far more damage if he'd simply driven throught Times Square in a Toyota.

I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.

Entering Malibu, I was overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia and long lost sadness, like seeing a home I had left a long time ago and had returned to.

I think all of our ministers are relatively inexperienced. I'm relatively inexperienced. We're a six-month-old government.

The proper artistic response to digital technology is to embrace it as a new window on everything thats eternally human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy

Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.