"Purely by hard work, one can become an artist."

“And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.”

“I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me.”

Source : "Q & A With Lucy Punch: Woody Allen's New Film, Eating Geographically and Why Offal Is Off-Limits". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.laweekly.com. September 20, 2010.

“Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.”

“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.”

“The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.”

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”

“One girl came up to me - I remember it so vividly - she said, "You're not fit to model socks." It crushed me. But at the same time, it made me unbelievably determined to prove everybody wrong and prove to myself that I could live an incredible life.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

“If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.”