A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

Try me, and you start LOVING!!

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.

When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing.

I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man.