She would stay there, flying across the sea like a mermaid with wings, until the end.

My heart was oaken before you set it on fire. It will continue to smolder, long after the flame that ignited it has gone.

By fate or forgery, our dances are entwined for eternity.

A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people.

Bonhoeffer did not expect his life to be a tidy edifice of perfection.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

Why don't we try falling in love first and then I'll see what happens after that?

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

Those two teachers [Kathleen Blackshear and Robert von Neumann] were just fantastic, I thought. They never directed you in a single direction, but they just encouraged you to think for yourself.

The stars, bright sentinels of the skies.

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.