Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.

Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste

The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.

The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.

Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.

People have hope because they cannot see Death standing behind them.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

I've been in this business so long, it just doesn't faze me. I know what's going to happen before it happens.

I don't think you retire from movies; movies retire you.

Religion is removed from the public realm, and the public realm is removed from the affairs of religion. However, this is not neutrality. Implicitly, it supports secularism.