It's better to live one day on this planet being true to yourself than an entire lifetime which is a lie

When we choose to live authentically we chip away at others prisons of pretend and create an opportunity for them to walk out of darkness into freedom.

My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't.

What magic is this?' the muse says to the man. 'A flower, a dream, a fairy-tale wish, ' the man says to his muse. The muse smiles.

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

Les Misérables etches Hugo's view of the world so deeply in the mind that it is impossible to be the same person after reading it.

You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

Being accepted by the world is the worst thing that can happen to the Church.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

EastEnders' keeps me so busy - that is where I'm at and I can't see that changing too soon. There's nothing that has quite got the punch of an 'EastEnders' script.

Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.