I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

New York City is the place where people come to invent, reinvent, or find the room they need to be who they wish to be.

Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.

If the stories don't come from the inside out, then Bridget [Jones] is not being true to herself and it's very important to me that she stays that way.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.

The chicest thing is when you don't exist on Google.

In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.

Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow.

Obesity among young Americans is a serious problem that can have serious ramifications in the long run.