There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Love is the symbol of eternity.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

Prayer is the life of the soul.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

Perhaps the whole of life is a continuousinterconnecting of miracle, but we don't always realise it.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

There's always pressure and that pressure is earned.

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. Its about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I wont give up this fight.

I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

I laugh and joke, but I don't get distracted very easily.

I'm aware that because America is so powerful - with its tentacles reaching out to the world - one doesn't escape it by leaving. This is the most dangerous and disturbing time in my life.