The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.
I love touring, I really do.
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
I think I'm a better actress for having friends and interests outside the theatre. I wouldn't want to live my life surrounded by other actors all the time.
In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.
Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.
Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.
European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.
The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.