I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.

When brothers agree no fortress is so strong as their common life.

Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults.

When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life.

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.

I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.

If you can't find a good role model, be one.

It's kind of interesting when you sign on to a show because you're basically signing on to play a character because you only really see the first episode of the show.

When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.

When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend.

I do believe as human beings we are a great mass of contradictions.

Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.

If you rely on the media for your information, to educate yourself about the candidates and what issues are facing the country, then you get just part of the equation. I think it's important that we as citizens of this democracy take the responsibility to get as much information as possible before we go into the voting booth.

I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories.

Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing with them nothing but their ambition: people such as Erich von Stroheim and Adolph Zukor.

For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

The shivering birds beneath the eaves have sheltered for the night.

I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road.

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

I love the 'Mildred Pierce' miniseries.

I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus.

Love at first sight is easy to understand its when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter needs to have producing chops, be a singer/songwriter, or find a singer to develop.