The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.

Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that.

The young man turned to him with a disarming candour which instantly put him on his guard.

The race may or may not be to the swift, but tell me, is it likely that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?

These are things I love, things I've worn. I get more compliments on accessories than anything else. I think they're kind of like herbs and spices. They give zest and zing to an outfit.

We all get old together/And we all get old forever.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.

Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.

If there is one thing of which I am most proud, it's that I made being ginger cool!

I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.