If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?

I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.

You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.

Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.

But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much.

There is nothing foolish about hope.

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.

First, silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly, silence guards the fire within. Thirdly, silence teaches us to speak.

As a gut thing, my next project is always the complete opposite of the thing I've just done. So if I've spent a lot of time doing film, I might then do some radio.

I don't think you can really trust a man who likes to dance.

In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

If you have no fear, no one has power over you.

From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.

I firmly believe that you can't manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid.

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.