"The only reality is God. There cannot be another and God is love."

“When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.”

“I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This is exactly like Before Sunrise.' And I'd have to get up and leave.”

“If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.”

“You always want to feel better but I'm good. My thing is once you get to the playoffs, you do whatever it takes. You've got to lay it on the line.”

“One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.”

Source : Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.48

“I grew up with a Christmas tree, I'm going to stay with a Christmas tree.”

“The more we depend on God the more dependable we find He is.”

Source : Cliff Richard (1999). “Cliff Richard: a celebration : the official story of forty years in show business”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

“Nothing affects my acting. Acting is something I do with my soul so it embodies a lot of things. For me, I don't know about anyone else, acting is spiritual, so if I do not embody a character or a story or a script, it's going to be extremely difficult for me to be convincing and I don't like that because I am somewhat of a perfectionist”

Source : "Jermain Defoe: 'I wanted to put something back and stop all this youth violence'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.