There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

People will have their opinions of you, but you must be able to distinguish theirs from yours.

People love their hells because they keep them!

You don't have to appreciate me - I hope you underestimate me. That way, when I have a good game, it'll hit you even harder.

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

I've always felt like I'm from another planet.

Love! Hate! Is there no third?

I take acting lessons with my coach, and what do I get famous for? Holding a puppy!

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.