A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

All the beauty of wisdom and knowledge resides in kindness.

We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart.

If we let go of things, our life is going to change. And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.

I just continue to be myself and give this thing over to the good lord, just do my best every night and pretend like it's just any other job.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

The cost of praising someone is nil - but every psychological study shows the payoff is huge.

If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

Lord Grantham: ‘My dear fellow. We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished.

Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.