The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.

Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield.

One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.

I guess they're called moments because they don't last very long.

I think I needed to be really hurt on the outside so the hurt on the inside would realize that it wasn’t on its own and that it had to come out.

I did get lost but I wanted someone to find me.

I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.

What you look like is just one part of who you are - but it's not all you are.

People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.

But Neve, you can’t start a book and leave it halfway through, ’ he’d said implacably. ‘It’s almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.

I smile. I smile all the time, but you're just not around to see it these days".

May your birthday be as pleasant and awesome as you always are.

Every mystery of life has its origin in the heart.

It happens all too often - people regret that their language and culture are being lost but at the same time decide not to saddle their own children with the chore of preserving them.

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

I'd like to do a comedy with Emma Thompson. I admire her as an actress so much. I love her. And I didn't know it until recently that her whole career started in comedy.

The church will not stay the same. It will either blossom because someone understands the season the church is in, or it will wither very quickly.

The religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion is not mere speculation, it is documented fact.

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

We eat, therefore we hunt.