my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important.

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

But in Christianity, by contrast, the freedom of the children of God was also freedom from all important worldly interests, from all art and science, etc.

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

I emphasize that I am full of ambition and hope and of full charm of life. But I can renounce all at the time of need, and that is the real sacrifice.

I think some songs are better on vinyl. I would rather listen to it in a club! 80% of this album; put it on in a club and just rage! Play it super loud!

On the approach of spring, I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!

I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.

Unfortunately I think the Internet knows more about me than I do. I usually look it up to see what I'm going to be doing that next week.