Being kind, being compassionate, being respectful does not make you weak. More often, it's the harder path to take.

When the well's nearly dry and you're not sure you have the strength to persevere, fill up on love and friendship, then take another step, and then another, until you reach your goal.

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.

You know what I realized? No one else lives in my memories but me.

For whatever it's worth, I believe we're born imperfect, and perfection, whatever that may be, is unattainable by us mere humans.

All at once it occurs to me that I'm the one who needs to give myself the break, to accept myself for who I am.

One HELLO? can change a life.One HELLO? can save a life.

I long for the day when people embrace our common humanity and respect diversity.

I'm an answer, Frankie. Maybe you're an answer for me, too?—Emerson

Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn't it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn't keen on me keeping it.

Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.

I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.

Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.

You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.