It's always an honour doing anything for your country.

I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.

Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

Your life is the same wherever you go.

Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

My instinct is to be very controlling.

I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

Love is family, support, priority, and understanding.

I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

When you learn the language of divine love, everything become divine, miraculous and lovely.

Fac quod faciendum est, ' " Jo read aloud. "Do what must be done.

Self-change can only come after self-understanding.

What is the secret of your serenity?” a student asked Sophia “Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable, ” she replied.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain.

Love is immune to whatever circumstance.

Love is always being given where it is not required.

I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit.

The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.