Live a life less ordinary.

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.

Dark, unfeeling and unloving powers determine human destiny.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.

I don't practice what I preach, I preach what I practice.

Consciousness is a vast ocean and thinking is the waves & ripples on the surface of the ocean.

I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.