It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

Woman softens her own troubles by generously solacing those of others.

Hope says to us constantly, "Go on, go on..."

Mathematics is life: the workings (process) is more important than the answer (proof/product). A wrong process cannot make a right product.

I did what I had to do. Now he's motivated.""Yeah, sure, motivated to s**t his pants maybe, " Luke point out.

I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

I've never been to the opera; I've only seen opera on DVD.

I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that we get paid is just a bonus.

God is either your worst enemy or your best friend.

I know I'm not a showy politician... I don't go drinking in parliament's bars. I don't wear my heart on my sleeve, I just get on with the job in front of me and you can judge me by my record.