...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.

A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much.

And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.

I'm not the kind of guy that really thinks I'm a celebrity or feels that I'm important or anything like that.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

There is turmoil under the heavens. The prospects are excellent.

I'm not really a girlie. I can be once in a while, but then I tend to fall off the heels.

You've got every right to a beautiful life

We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love.