People are scared. People are generally xenophobic - they're scared of what's different. If you're ignorant as well as scared, then you might end up hating something that you're scared of.

The more you learn, I think the more you realise who you are and what you want and what you believe and what you want to be and where you want to end up.

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

People don't know how to deal with stress and depression, so they're nasty to other people because it makes them feel better about themselves.

The more you relate to something or somebody speaks to you, it means more. I think that putting yourself out there like heart-on-sleeve, is really important.

I think the media put more pressure on women, especially in regards to the way they look and how they're supposed to behave.

I can watch a sunset on my own.

I love reading books, I love the way they feel and getting through it. It's like an event!

If you have love, it doesn’t matter what you don’t have.

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

Live in harmony with one another.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred.

You have to have courage to stand up to your critics.

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.

Tennis has given me soul.

The divine is in all things.