Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold.

The best listener is the one who really cares about the other person.

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

Of course war is horrible, but at present it's still the only guarantee of peace.

The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.

'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'

Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.