The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Money means better meals at better places.

The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.

After I found that I had become an actor, slightly to my surprise, I did have some insecurity, and I did take some rather strange acting classes at a place called The Actor's Studio in London. I don't think they did me any good at all.

Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart.

Since it has pleased Providence to place me in this station, I shall do my utmost to fulfil my duty towards my country; I am very young and perhaps in many, though not in all things, inexperienced, but I am sure that very few have more real good will and more real desire to do what is fit and right than I have.

We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us - loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe - yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!

I'm smart. I know I can succeed. I just need a chance. A chance to climb out of this place I've born in.

I realized eventually that when I ran out of places to stay and found myself on the D train and in Central Park, I was actually homeless.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.

Now I'm an old Christmas tree the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

At Christmas 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time even though I know it's coming.

Golf is good it means I get some fresh air and exercise take my mind off work and see some of the landscape of the place I'm visiting.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

Racism in the first place is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.

It ain't easy to break out of a mold but if you do your work people will ultimately see what you're capable of. Too often people find it easier to make assumptions and stick with what they believe. They put you in a place and it makes their job easier. The good people constantly search for something different.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you you have not found your place.

Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling the darker blinder strata of character are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making and directly perceive how events happen and how work is actually done.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.