I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

If he didn't want his opinion, why did he ask for it?

‎Does anyone truly understand females? ...Their behavior is opposite of everything in the natural order and flies in the face of logic.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

I always say the beauty is in the mix.

I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case, I sort of fell into acting.