Past all shame, so past all truth.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Pray for me and I am blessed today, teach me to pray and I will see you in heaven

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

Books are more honest than the world. If you want to understand people, listen to what they make up.

For it is not mere words that nourish the soul, but God Himself, and unless and until the hearers find God in personal experience they are not the better for having heard the truth.

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

There's nothing more creative I'll ever do in my career than trying to make an hour of TV everyday.

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

I really don't have tremendous political ambition. I have policy ambition.

What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated. What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.

When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.