I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.

The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.

I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a Jurassic Park.

I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that.

An investment in questions is the only way to increase human and financial capital.

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going to be bad.

But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, wherever you are.

The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.

I could hear hopefulness in her voice, but also doubt. She was waiting for me to admit the obvious: I’d forgotten. I was toast. I was boyfriend roadkill.

I was raised in the church by my grandmother who made sure we went to Sunday School, read the Bible and went to church every Sunday. Every night we read Bible stories before we went to bed.

Whatever it is you love, and whatever it is that you want to do, that's what you should be doing.