From surfeit to loss is a short line.

Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.

A thought comes into her head: that lately she doesn't ask herself what is possible, but rather what possibilities remain.

Heart stop aching, mind stop thinking.

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.

The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.

No, it has not been hard to grow older, because I believe if you have something you believe in that will keep you alive far more than plastic surgery or Botox.