At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

E. P. Thompson

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

John Stuart Mill

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Clara Schumann

People strive in this world, not for those things which are truly good, but for the possession of many things which they call their property.

Leo Tolstoy

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Sophocles

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

George Lucas

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Clint Eastwood

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

Peter Shaffer

There were a couple of occasions in India when I was twenty that felt to me like going out with a thimble in your hand, hoping to catch a drop of rain, and having the ocean land on your head. These experiences convinced me that there is an absolute love that pervades everything.

David James Duncan

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

Arnold J. Toynbee

When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.

Lily Allen