Pastoral Resources

If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

I love having time to prepare my lines and more time off.

Acting is my first love.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

Look your best - who said love is blind?

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.

It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.