How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

If you begin reading your Bible daily, you will develop a positive mindset, positive attitude and positive action.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

I've worked on high visibility shows that weren't always the best, and low visibility shows that I love but that didn't have the PR behind them.

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.

God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in he middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.

One aspect of my mum's personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

My approach to gymnastics in Beijing was heavily based on the amount of difficulty I could do.

The President [Barack Obama] had suggested that I not watch the news during the confirmation process. I assiduously followed his advice.