Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.

The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.

I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.

And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!

None of us are either all good or all bad - we're all somewhere in between - but there comes a moment in each life when we take an important step, either toward the light or toward the dark.

Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.

How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely.

You never know just what you can do until you try.

Everyone has a price.

It's time to make important noise.

I want to have fun, and I want to give people a good laugh.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

Rose Tyler: Can't you come through properly? The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse. Rose Tyler: So?

That man loves God who puts his own life in harmony with him, and who serves his fellow men as though his life depends upon it, as indeed it does.