Any mind that lacks the spirit of gratitude knows nothing about the feeling of happiness.

Trust is a gossamer thread, and it takes only a breath of suspicion to break it.

My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.

I have a good attitude. And I was born with a happy heart. I'm always looking for things to be better.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

I love hitting the stage and I don't think I could trade that for sitting in the basement making beats.

If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one.

And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.

Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.