"I am someone who thinks that if you've got an actor like that who wants to perform your work, then you should do it, and hopefully Tom [Hardey] likes to do the work that I do, so long may it continue."

“There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.”

“The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.”

Source : Eric Felten (2011). “Loyalty: The Vexing Virtue”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

“Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.”

Source : "A crisis of credibility" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2008.

“It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.”

“Churches are the primary partners that work with Habitat in an almost infinite variety of creative overlapping circles. We cherish these partnerships with churches…I have always seen Habitat for Humanity as a servant of the church and as a vehicle through which the church and its people can express their love, faith, and servanthood to people in need in a very tangible and concrete (literally!) way.”

Source : Millard Fuller (1994). “The Theology of the Hammer”, p.53, Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

“I'll admit I never wanted to be in a band. Then, in X-Factor, they put me in this group and it's the best thing that ever happened to me.”

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

“No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!”