What you want in a romantic comedy, is to have two people that you want to see together and how do they overcome the obstacles that are in the way for that to happen.

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career.

Fame is fleeting. Sometimes people like you, sometimes they don’t. Not all people are going to like you.

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.

Eventually feels a lot different than actually.

The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words "Yes, dear. Whatever you want.

The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.

If a person cannot protect you, it is because you were meant to perfect them.If they cannot perfect you, you are meant to protect them.

I'm thinking about the cat dying, Dulcie and her knife against my throat, Mrs Irvin and her St Thomas bone... But never my sister. A brother rarely thinks about his sister.

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is - fact.

An indecent mind is a perpetual feast.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word

Come Dance with Me , come dance.

In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.

Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.