Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

She has failed. She wishes she didn't mind. Something, she thinks, is wrong with her.

Here, then, is the last moment of true perception, a man fishing in a red jacket and a cloudy sky reflected on opaque water.

Because things are not agreeable, " said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.

The casket was lined with lovely velvet, which must have felt lovely even to the dead, but the glowing man continued to rip up the casket.

I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful. I sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

As a leader you have to recognize that it all starts with you: your attitude, your commitment, your caring, your passion.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Of course it would depend on the project, but I don't think I could ever separate myself from my aesthetic.