You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

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.

Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth...

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

[Ernest Rutherford is]...a second Newton.

When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.

Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

No one can beat Momma. She made me the person I am today. The way I think and act and move and talk and speak. It's all because of her.

Do what brings you joy, and your purpose will unfold.

I gravitate towards gravitas.

I don't know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.