“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.”

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

We moralize among ruins.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

London is a roost for every bird.

Never complain and never explain.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

We would talk on the phone for hours, philosophically and theologically, about all of these issues.

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.

I’m ready to go. I’m not going to sit in a makeup chair for an hour and be like, “Then I’ll go get the story.”

Were you already here?” he asked. “Yeah.” “Didn’t you just bring her home from work two hours ago?” “Yeah.” Tripp chuckled and shook his head. “Did you even leave?” “No.

Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren’t enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

What’s so great about television. You’re able to tell a long story, where you couldn’t really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.