“The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul.”

All you really have when you’re acting is the confidence and your ability to manage and tell a story by creating a character.

This man belongs to me, I want him!

I’m really obsessed with ‘Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares.’ I really don’t know why.

People in the arts often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye.

It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!

Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.

Doctor, you don’t know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don’t; you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours.

I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

None but the brave deserve the fair.

What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister?

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

It appears to be more that of a warrior-philosopher who practices the art of political persuasion by authoring acclaimed books

The face that cannot smile is never fair.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.

We all deal with being unfairly judged.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.