Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

Trust is a word created by liars.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

I've appeared on some other people's albums.

I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy.

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author."

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.