"I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet."

“You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.”

Source : "The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running Your Business". techcrunch.com. August 24, 2013.

“Carl Jung put [Orfeo Angelucci] in his last book [Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1959]. He said Orfeo had made up a new bible.”

“There have been studies concluding that most people mostly know people only within their own social class - although such a conclusion would hardly surprise anyone. I think there's evidence to suggest that it's even narrower - the great majority of friends of Ivy Leaguers, for instance, are Ivy Leaguers. This narrows the pool of people who can write fiction cutting across class boundaries that's informed by their own personal experience.”

“Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies.”

Source : Song: Like You Do, Album: Tennessee Moon, 1996

“Superstorm Sandy inflicted havoc and heartache throughout the Northeast, hitting the Big Apple and its surrounding coastal towns hard.”

Source : "Gen. Honoré: Sandy recovery is stumbling" by Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

“It's not our art, but our heart that's on display.”

“It amazes me how little common curtesy people can show when their tested.”

“I've been to Canada, and they love - oh my God, they love their stand-up comedy in Canada. I've been overseas to do shows for the troops all over the Middle East, and I actually went to China recently and did shows, not for the troops, but just for local Chinese people, and Americans that have moved there, and things like that. It was fantastic. They got it. They're way smarter than we give them credit for.”