The pen is mightier than the sword, for by the sword are mortal battles waged, but by the pen entire cultures swayed, eternal societies arrayed, and souls of men saved.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

A simple dream, a simple thoughtCan generate actions to shake the world.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

I don't have a Pollyana attitude toward life that claims everything is lovely.

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

The best career advice to give to the young is, 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

The drama school was in Oxford - and it's funny to think of it, but in those days when I started out the University was nearly all male. And they certainly weren't mixed.

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.