Behind every myth lies a truth; beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.

Sometimes it's about standing in your power.

Lord thy will be done in my life.

All suffering is the consequence of a constant quest.

You have to set new goals every day.

But I think you could say my parts in Appointment In London and Gilbert and Sullivan were particularly interesting.

Do great in the small things.

My mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.