Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

No past is dead for us but only sleeping love.

I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.

If you don't think that you're the best, how do you become the best?

I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.

Britain is a very small country with a very large press.

Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.

The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening.

You don't get to be the bad mom and still succeed at your job and be tough. It's such a good job because it's so rare. It's a really rare job.

There is always a melancholic silence before entering every New Year!

What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.