It is very sad how some people pray to God to take away their pain and sufferings, but then turn around and consciously inflict pain on others.

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

We live in a niche world.

Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

A totally healthy actor is a paradox.