Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.

I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.

The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

If their horoscopes are not compatible, this marriage is out of the question.

My intention had not been to find her, for I had been busy being lonely with someone else.

She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.

I hope you live a life you're proud of...

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

All the Cosmic Drama, as it is written in the four Gospels, should be lived inside ourselves, here and now. The isn't something merely historic, it's something to live, here and now!

When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".