The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

You never know where you can possibly reach in your lifetime if you pursue the path of constant and never ending self-development.

You bloody want me. You can deny it if that helps you sleep better at night, but you're going to end up in my bed sooner or later. Want it or not.

Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table." Han (to Leia)

The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end

In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.

Stop tryin to be loud as me, cause you can't do that, Think about it...playing Russian roulette with an automatic!

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.

When you have no defensiveness about what you think but rather you totally believe it, you are passionate about it.

I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes.