"We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us."

“And yet, something tied them together, strong than any of that, something with the power to conduct her blood and breath like a symphony, so that anything she did to fight against it felt like discord, like disharmony with her self.”

“At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.”

Source : "Portrait of the artist: David Harewood, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2010.

“No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.”

Source : Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.479

“I wish that our culture could retain the symbolism and emotional power of traditional religion while combining it with reason and science and using the combination to enhance our humanity rather than impoverishing it by choosing the one side or the other.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.”

“The miracle stories of the New Testament can no longer be interpreted in a post-Newtonian world as supernatural events performed by an incarnate deity.”

“If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.”

“I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!”