"Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation."

“I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.”

Source : "Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man". Book by Howard Pollack, 1999.

“If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.”

“Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.”

“It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.”

Source : Cherie Priest (2012). “Dreadnought”, p.372, Pan Macmillan

“The thing for me, and I can only really judge this by what I respond to myself as an audience member, I really only respond to a movie if I'm interested in the people who are in it. It's really that simple. If I'm not, then it's all noise.”

Source : Source: www.empireonline.com

“A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.”

“I'm a really big animal lover.”

“To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.”