"It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your children, without losing yourself as well."

“Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.”

“No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.”

“You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.”

“I went through two pretty dark years being fed up with the system and frustrated with my own party after two disastrous elections in 2006 and 2008.”

“There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.”

Source : Margot Asquith (1920). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith”

“A star is a person who shines so brightly,who gives their gifts so fully,who loves so completely that everyone is drawn by the light of this star to find the way home.”

“If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.”

“The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end, when the deck is cast out, it is the poor who are selected to die in this country.”