HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge...

How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

There is a myth at the heart of things and some element of genius in the heart of each person.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

Progress is a collection of expectations set and met.

My mother was so stylish, but she never pushed that on me. She always thought I looked cool.

Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole.

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

The glory of God is humankind fully alive.

It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.

It's for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can't afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it - a little bit of me or a lot of me, that's what's important.