A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

I find that a lot of actors who are good and open to challenges have lived a full life. When you walk into an audition, you have more to say for yourself because you come from the real world. It's more enticing for directors, I think.

I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.

The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.

It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.

It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself

...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.

I never share credit or desserts.

Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?

There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

“She needed him. And he was nowhere to be found. There was no else she could rely on. No one like her brother. No one else at all.”

“No, but your idea of what betters human life might differ from someone else’s.’ For”

He leaves and she thinks for the hundredth time that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the world doesn’t treat us by rule?