Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring.

We have always learned about life by dramatising our questions.

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.

I can honestly, and proudly, say that I never was on the casting couch. Oh, of course there have been advances from certain men in the movie industry, but nothing overwhelming.

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.

A mountaineer’s house, before being his home and the home of his family, is the home of God and of guests.

Cycling is not rocket science.

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

I feel like sometimes my best friend is not my best friend but my mortal enemy