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“Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.”
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“I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your parietal fissure? A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.”
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“I never thought I had to forge a family, but it felt the most natural thing that ever happened to me - meeting someone and becoming a father.”
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“My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.”
Source : "What Makes a Good Man? A Conversation With Mark Shriver". Interview with Mark K. Shriver, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012. 
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“Only a Californian would have observed that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the real fake from the fake fake.”
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“There is so little that one can do for the dead!”
Source : Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “The Emperor of Portugallia”, p.191, Library of Alexandria
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“I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.”
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“George Burns was more athletic than you think he was. And he was a very social man--he loved people, he enjoyed life. He worked at living. Old George was a social lion, he got around and did things. That's the key right there. It starts with your brain. Some people, when they get to 60 years old have no interests anymore, have no friends left. George Burns was busy all the time doing something.”
