I am all for the short and merry life.

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

Life is never easy for those who dream.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

Being your own person and standing for what you believe is a critical aspect of a good professional life.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

I had a great bond with my father. Even when I was a kid, my bond with my dad made me want to be a father myself one day.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

My dad taught me everything. It's been fun walking in his footsteps. He played for his whole life and traveled the country and had a great career. He taught me everything about life and playing golf and how to act. Just everything. I learned so much from him and those days hanging around the driving range.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

I respect my dad, and he's amazing. He's my hero. He's the Beatles, man - or one of them.

I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan.

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I remember the first game I got to see him play against the Jets. The Kings beat the Jets, and I was happy that they did. Gretzky left the game after the first period, and I was upset about that.

I don't think I have any guilt or embarrassment about any of the TV shows I watch. Maybe the fact that the shows I can watch over and over again are cartoons like 'Bob's Burgers' and 'American Dad' and 'Rick & Morty.'

I love just lying on the floor at home watching games with my dad. No pressures, just being me.

My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a butcher - but he does a lot of crafts, stained glass, painting, that stuff. There is art in our family, and I was an art major in college along with being a theater major.

'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin - who's about the age my dad was when he started at CBS - working at the Oyster Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he left behind.

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they're based in the U.K. I'm a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

When I was a child, I wanted to be a jockey. I love horses, but it's not practical to have one in London. I also wanted to be an accountant, which isn't glamorous at all, but my dad was one, and I quite liked maths.

I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.

I'm so lucky that 'The Vampire Diaries' happened. I'm so lucky that Warner Bros. pays me money. You have no idea. I should be on a fishing boat with my dad.

My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

My dad has ingrained that in me: 'Be accountable.'

My mum and dad were incredibly supportive - although I suspect my dad would have preferred me to go the university route. However, I know they were extremely proud when I won the 2011 BAFTA Best Actor for playing comedian Eric Morecambe in 'Eric and Ernie.'

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called 'Stardust Melody.' It was like I went into a trance or something. I forgot all about my dad sending me to the shop. When I got home, I explained to him what happened. I thought I was going to get a whipping, but he understood.

My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the pasture. Cows bit me all over.

I came from a Halloween-friendly home. My dad, Spencer, was a U.S. Marine captain. But when it came to Halloween, my dad had a soft spot. He would take his three sons and friends on escapades on Halloween night.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

My dad was a holistic doctor, so putting good things into my body has always been something I've strived for.

As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Design can change how you look at yourself.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

Design is people.