Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind.

I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

If we say that no one's out there And we say we're goin' nowhere And we avoid the question Is this all that it means?

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.

My father instilled in me a love for racing.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

Every era in history has needed, and will need, reproductive health services.

We are living in a material world and I'm a material girl.

Knowest thou not that kings have long hands? [Lat., An nescis longos regibus esse manus?]