The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

It takes centuries for sense to become common

I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.

I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance. Could you just lay some lard in my belly?

I've made one or two movies that I haven't even seen, because they were never released. I have made things that I never even saw. But I will always go see the movie I'm in.

‎What doesn't bend must break, when dooms are apportioned and destiny takes the lead. As it will now, and as it must, until this struggle ends.

Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.