Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Embracing weakness echoes resilience.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others".

everything is negotiable. everything.

I'm sure all that you've heard is just the usual gossip, invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate truth.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.

Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.