I became one of the stately homos of England.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Posing was the first job I did in which I understood what I was doing.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Vice is its own reward.

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.

Change your thought life to a prayer life.

You have to chase your dreams with all your heart.

His hand cupped her cheek as he lowered his head to hers. Just before their lips touched, a light knock sounded on the door.

To limit the ways our daughters can legitimately function as stewards/rulers further devalues the image of God in them and continues the imbalance and distortion of God's plan.

For me, it’s not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual...It is an outer expression of the inner spirit.

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.