I want to be better at staying connected.

I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

I keep myself amused and others confused

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Peace begins with a touch of unconditional love.

When a true purpose refuses to breathe, it suffocates to its ebb and death!

If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.

What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?

Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working.

See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking.