All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

We ought not to READ the scriptures, but listen to them, for our Beloved is present and speaks to us through them. (vs. it being like a love letter sent to us from afar).

I am a romantic, I admit it.

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

The Christian should stand out like a sparkling diamond.

You get faith by studying the Word. Study that Word until something in you "knows that you know" and that you do not just hope that you know.

Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of lifestyle and look.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Pray to Saint Philomena, What ever you ask from her, She will obtain for you.

The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.