When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

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.

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.

Successful presentations are understandable, memorable, and emotional

Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments.

I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!

I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever?

A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

Now, after divorce with Tom Cruise, I can wear heels.

Things aren't black and white in the world.

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response: "How may I be kind to you?"