I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of himself, comes to be united with his facsimile.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

Why is love intensified by absence?

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window.

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room

Let go of the heavy pains of yesterday and you will feel lighter to float on top with your values. Arise and float!

"Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years but it has never been the motto of leaders.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

You get a decent do at the Brazen Head

Praise and disgrace cause fear.

The secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe; you must only show the first two cracks.

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.