"Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good."

“Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.”

“I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.”

“I don't believe that same-sex marriages would weaken heterosexual marriage. Marriage is not a scarce resource. I thought that conservatives worried about too few people choosing marriage, not too many.”

Source : Source: www.newyorker.com

“The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.”

Source : Address in Reply to His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, hansard.millbanksystems.com. November 01, 1950.

“I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.”

“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”

“Everybody shut up. Let us work.”

“Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.”

Source : "The Real Debbie Downer: An Interview With SNL’s Rachel Dratch". Interview with Avital Andrews, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.