"I try to pay as little attention as possible to people who are not part of my team. What counts for me is what my father says, because he is my coach. I listen to my brother and my fitness coach. I don't care about anyone else."

“The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early discontents, I expect that a just, dispassionate and steady conduct, will at length rally to a proper system the great body of our country. Unequivocal in principle, reasonable in manner, we shall be able I hope to do a great deal of good to the cause of freedom & harmony.”

“It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.”

“Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”

Source : Humbert Wolfe (1936). “P.L.M.: Peoples, Landfalls, Mountains”, London : Cassell

“The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.”

“The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.”

“Everyone loves a slice of period-drama-pie, but I think the success of Upstairs Downstairs is really down to the wonderful format that Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins created.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.”

“I just wish I could understand my father.”