There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.

I'm so proud to be part of Harry Potter and even prouder to be representing the gingers.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.

In particular in how [Barack Obama] has directed what you could describe as patronizing remarks to African-American communities.

Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.