Do as we say, and not as we do.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Do as we say, and not as we do.

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

You must read you must persevere you must sit up nights you must inquire and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning take another if obstacles arise then still another until if your strength holds out you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile.

Personally I believe a rocking hammock a good cigar and a tall gin and tonic is the way to save the planet.

I just believe in common courtesy.

People had lost faith in me in Baltimore, and rightfully so. I knew that was not the guy I was.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.

I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them.

We have not won the battle against drug trafficking.

Before I really even understood what the term meant, I wanted to be wealthy. I wanted to be able to drive the beautiful old Rolls-Royces my father admired when I was a child.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer directed.

Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it's harder and harder to make them.

Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Into every life a little rain must fall

My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled every day to the Auckland Grammar School.

I don't eat a ton of pasta or bread. But I eat dessert almost every night, and I drink. You need a bit of balance, and I've found mine.