Unlike exotic fruit or fancy cars, democracy is best if it is grown locally. It may take root in the common desire of the people who choose to adopt it, but it cannot be imposed from the outside.

Love the one who proves to you that ‘happily ever after’ is only the beginning.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

My job driving the ambulance was not very severe, you did what you were supposed to do. That was my main job.

Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

Sometimes I wonder what my grandfather would think of what I do, he spent his whole life in the kebab business, was buried with all his equipment, probably turning in his grave.

Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.

In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.