I wish you couldn't figure me out, but you'd always want to know what I was about

The more you learn, I think the more you realise who you are and what you want and what you believe and what you want to be and where you want to end up.

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.

Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.

People don't know how to deal with stress and depression, so they're nasty to other people because it makes them feel better about themselves.

The more you relate to something or somebody speaks to you, it means more. I think that putting yourself out there like heart-on-sleeve, is really important.

People are scared. People are generally xenophobic - they're scared of what's different. If you're ignorant as well as scared, then you might end up hating something that you're scared of.

I think the media put more pressure on women, especially in regards to the way they look and how they're supposed to behave.

I can watch a sunset on my own.

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

[Albert Camus] was completely intransigent, and that's not at all a neutrality. It's combat, it's a man who involved himself, committed himself.

I especially love my Moto Guzzi.

Meditation is not an act, it is a quality. Meditation is not something that you do - it is something that you become.

I know who I am. I don't see myself as this whoever they see me as.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.