One moment flying in green sunlight, then the sky suddenly grey and dark.

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.

Careless talk costs lives.

We are a sensational team.

There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will

It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.

But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.

Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

I didn't really want to be a comedian.

Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.

Never stop dreaming, because dreams DO come true.

Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

Live without expectations and there will be no frustration.

I like to say that I didn't choose acting - acting chose me.