It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

I've learned that anyone capable of adoring you is equally capable of abhorring you.

Everyone needs more support than they are getting.

I had a family that supported me.

I sneaked into an Everton match once. I'm a Liverpool supporter, but Liverpool were away, Liverpool reserves weren't playing, there wasn't even a youth match, so I took my son into an Everton match. God help me. It wasn't me.

The Galveston community has been so supportive of me throughout my career.

Family really meant almost nothing to me for many years but then, to my enormous surprise, when I met my partner James I found myself re-engaging and re-connecting. My mother died in 1977 but I got to know my father as an adult, and he got on well with James. A rapprochement with my whole family followed.

Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go.

I'm trying to surround myself during my life with the eight people I'd surround my bed with on my death.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.