You know, I was a kid when I went into 'Coronation Street' and I had an amazing time. I got some fantastic opportunities from Corrie and from 'Soapstar' and I'd never say they did anything other than help me.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Junius

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent

Aldous Huxley

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

Joseph Story

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Tom Stoppard

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Jane Austen

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

Howard Zinn

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Charles Horton Cooley

I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.

Evel Knievel

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Lawrence Durrell