I maintain that when I finally retire from my career in music, I will go and live back in Wales - when I am an old person, if I live to be an old person. The water I miss, and the air, there's something different about it. And I miss the simple life.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Meryl Streep

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

Andrzej Wajda

Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall; Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth: O God! O Montreal!

Samuel Butler (novelist)

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Katharine Hepburn

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Jonathan Swift

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

George Orwell

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

Jason Reitman

War is a contagion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

William Shakespeare

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

Avril Lavigne

When forever becomes a place...when forever ceases to be just a word when it ceases to be a just a measurement of timebut instead becomes a place where soul mates can dance to the song in their hearts, that is a reflection of true love.

Steve Maraboli

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Charles Kuralt