Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away.

I tell you not to be timid. I tell you to make the choices, make the mistakes, big, terrible, reckless mistakes, really screw it all up. I tell you it is the only way.

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.

When we meet a person truly in need, do we see the face of God?

There's no map for being an artist.