True kindness ennobles the giver

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

Even coal shimmers in the light

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

There is no treasure like the human heart.

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.

Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where, if you're successful, you go on for years.

If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

Encourage innocent amusement.

Eccentricty had flowered into madness.

Goodnight, my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.

Code writers, they are my idols.