The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have, is to so live, and so improve himself in heart and brain, as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man.

The goodness, the sympathy, the self-denial of the nun, of the monk, all come from the mother-instinct, the father-instinct - all were produced by human affect…

The great question is not, who died right, but who lived right? There is infinitely more responsibility in living than in dying. The moment of death is the mos…

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

I love being married, I do. It's so great to find that one special person that you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Marriage is a wonderful thing. It is more important to like the person you marry than it is to love them.

I've repeatedly said that for people as little in common as Joanne and myself, we have an uncommonly good marriage. We are actors, we make pictures - and that'…