I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J.K. Rowling

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Oscar Wilde

Tact is knowing how far to go too far.

Jean Cocteau

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

Terry Pratchett

A library implies an act of faith.

Victor Hugo

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Walter Anderson

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Ramsey Clark

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

James D'arcy

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

Dawn French

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

Gabrielle Union

You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.

Douglas Booth