Like young fern shootsmy child's fingers curled.I did not expect, in the fifth month, frost.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

Letters are things, not pictures of things.

You should choose organisations that are going to be flexible and supportive and recognise people are going through different stages in their careers and actually need different sorts of support.

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.

It is the mind itself which builds the body.

I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh.

People who are unwilling to make mistakes or have made mistakes and have not yet learned from them are those who wake up each morning and continue to make the same mistakes

It is my heart that's late, it is my song that's flown.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.