We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

Just because there is change around us does not mean there has to be change within us.

Flowers too wither and fall, but they inspire one and all!

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish.

Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.

I'm just a small guy so if I'd dropped any more weight it would have been a bit ridiculous.

I'm very happy to be back playing rugby for England again - there were times when I questioned if this would happen.

Why dost thou not retire like a guest sated with the banquet of life, and with calm mind embrace, thou fool, a rest that knows no care?

An actor has to embody a role.

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.