Challenges turned the eye inward to empower a renewed self for an enhanced future.

A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard

Reading is air in my lungs, fire in my blood, company in my thoughts.

She was home, the passage walls, memorabilia of Ben's life, past and present, welcomed her like a doting grandmother.

Anger and animosity cannot enshrine what was once wonderful...

There are many, many, many worlds branching out at each moment you become aware of your environment and then make a choice.

Diplomacy was a long game.

Google can bring you back 100, 000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

It's cool because, as you get older, you get offered older parts. You're older, so you can't play 10 anymore. That was always very exciting for me.

There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.

I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.

My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.