But our comedies never endured long without a tragedy.

Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.

He who does not work, will not eat

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly grow rich.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.

Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!

The attitude, and the mind, is where it all starts.

Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.

The Best way to help the world is to help someone!

The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Reason and memory are nearly always at odds.

She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew this before she did.

Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.

And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up!

That's the kind of visual that you're trying to attract - something that in some way or another, connects you to what's happening there in a realistic way.

Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

When you look at someone like Sacha Baron Cohen, you have to really respect the boundaries he is pushing as Bruno or Borat.

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.