"If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss."

“It turns out that a lot of women just have a problem with women in power. You know, this whole sisterhood, this whole let's go march for women's rights and, you know, just constantly talking about what women look like or what they wear, or making fun of their choices or presuming that they're not as powerful as the men around. This presumptive negativity about women in power I think is very unfortunate, because let's just try to access that and have a conversation about it, rather than a confrontation about it.”

“The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it”

“Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.”

“You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.”

Source : "John Simm interview: 'I don't really do awards'" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

“The way to attain the virtue of mercy lies in our constant awareness of being encompassed by mercy.”

Source : Dietrich Von Hildebrand (2001). “Transformation in Christ”, p.171, Ignatius Press

“Ideation without execution is delusion”

“What is virtue? Reason in practice.”

“What's interesting is a man with no facial hair is less intimidating than a man with facial hair, and a man who is bald is more intimidating than a man with hair.”