At midnight tears Run into your ears.

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Perhaps this very instant is your time.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

I have lost faith in universal panaceas - work is the one thing in which I really believe.

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round.

The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.

Go and do, don't sit and stew.

Wear your heart on your sleeve and be kind. And just be the way you are-what you see is what you get.

A Rick Santorum presidency would be very, very dangerous for America.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.