They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.

But what doesn’t die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.

Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart the gods are powerless against him.

I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.

I'm being a dad and a good husband.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

I would not have had our troops in Iraq.

The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.

The biggest pitfall as you make your way through your life is impatience.

Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.