I wouldn't say anything I ever did in film would be something I'd use the word proud about. I've done better work in the theater.

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.

These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.

You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.