Good families are generally worse than any others.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

I may not understand, but I am willing to admire.

Good families are generally worse than any others.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.

Sometimes I think it'd be fun to do a completely different job for a while. You've got one life and you do the same job for the whole of it, and you think - was that a good use of a life?

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.

It's much easier to force intermediary communications and Internet companies such as Google to police themselves and their users than the alternatives: sending cops after everybody who attempts a risque or politically sensitive search, getting parents and teachers to do their jobs, or chasing down the origin of every offending link.

I loved 'Truly Madly Deeply' and all those 1990s romcoms because you had great actresses like Juliet Stevenson and Emma Thompson starting out.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.

Infatuation cannot be sustained indefinitely, my friend. Love that embraces the entire person is a monumental gift that takes time to grow.

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.

Europe has to secure its borders and support those in the neighborhood who share our values.

Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.

When the Warriors are on, my wife keeps away from me. I'm a rabid fan, and my language sometimes is not too good.

Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs.

Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it.

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

Even if gay marriage were legalized there would still be gay men who didnt want to marry gay men no other gay men would want to marry and gay men who didnt want to leave the priesthood in order to marry.

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

The guy that I worked on 'Thriller ' was a genius and he was 20 years old, but it was like working with a gifted 10-year-old. The guy who I worked on with 'Black Or White' was crazy. Michael had gone mad.

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.