Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figure dreaded and occasionally comic but never welcome never loved.

People can copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you still want to do.

I've never had a car. Like I can drive, but I'm always at the risk of killing people.

The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)

I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

There is more value in a little study of humility and in a single act of it than in all the knowledge in the world.

what she loved: life, London, this moment of june.