Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?

There is nothing wrong with dreaming, but there is everything wrong with dreaming without any intention to make the dream a reality.

To forget the call on your life to express your best is to leave the world smaller than you find it today.

But isn't there something wrong when I'm the only guy in the country that got fired for 9/11?

I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.

I don't intend to die.

I don't know why I get cast in a lot of period pieces. Stephen Fry told me that I had a face for period, that I look like someone from 1920.

It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

Knowing heaven is what heals us on earth.