Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

I don't believe in miracles, only unexplained facts.

If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.

Your vision helps you filter your decisions or choices and directs your actions.

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

It is in many people's best interest for you not to find yourself, but it only matters that it is in yours, and the whole world's, to proceed.

Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

Before making a decision, ask inside for guidance. Be patient and await an answer. Act only when you feel calm and certain.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Whenever you're doing two things at once, you're compromising them both.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.