I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Never lose your sense of common sense.

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

Whining is just unbecoming.

Things are going to go wrong. The great chefs are the ones that don't let it fluster them. They just move through it.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

If you don't like something don't do it, and if you're doing something then you better like it. It is as simple as that.

We were in negotiations, but then the Japanese side suspended them unilaterally. Now, at the request of our Japanese partners, we have reopened these talks.

With each movie I have a different set of inspirations.