Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

When you're underperforming the index, you go home at night and cry in your beer. It's not fun, but who said this business should be fun. We're too well paid to hang our heads and say boo hoo.

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

Patriotism corrupts history.

I find the voice is what I look for first and foremost with just about every character I play.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

My name will live forever, but I should not care about this at all, because I am not my name and my name is not me!

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.

Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one.