There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

Theatre is a sacred space for actors. You are responsible you are in the driving-seat.

When you learn a Bruce Springsteen song, it's like learning to ride a bike. You don't forget it.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

I don't miss my pin-up days. I'm far too old for that malarkey.

Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus.

I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.

I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Fear begins to melt away when you begin to take action on a goal you really want.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.