A man's looks are measured by the depth of his pockets.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

People make one happy, not houses.

These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.

Skill, education, money aren't the difference makers, passion is. If you've passion to achieve something, there's nothing that can stop you.

Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

Writing is just my first love. And I still have some issues with telling people what to do.

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.

I had a prior deal in place to do a miniseries for HBO, so I'm not done with TV. But I basically want to stay in movies.

Fish are not the best authority on water.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.