Everybody grows but me.

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

Everybody grows but me.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

On Alcohol: Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

Just close your eyes and think of England.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was the present worse than it is and the future less resolved than it will be.

I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.

You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyone over twenty-five gets at some point.

I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

If you go into science, I think you better go in with a dream that maybe you, too, will get a Nobel Prize. It's not that I went in and I thought I was very bright and I was going to get one, but I'll confess, you know, I knew what it was.

This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed.

Any person I idolise, or I really admire their work, I want to beat them... For me, going through my years, I made sure to idolise myself... So when you're in a race, you have to make sure that you think you are the favourite to win. You have to have that confidence.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now Ive learned the hard way that some poems dont rhyme and some stories dont have a clear beginning middle and end. Life is about not knowing having to change taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing whats going to happen next.

I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.

I rarely listen to commercial radio, and when I do, I'm shocked by how many ads there are, and how annoying they are, and how bad the radio station usually is.

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

When you watch 'Shark Tank,' everything is about off-shore this, off-shore that.

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.

I intensely covered Bush when he was Governor of Texas.

The intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look intelligent anymore.

My new novel 'Red Hook Road' began many years ago as a short article in the newspaper.