Helen Mirren

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

It is necessary to hope… for hope itself is happiness.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Dharma is what the Buddha taught. It is the way of understanding and love-how to understand, how to love, how to make understanding and love into real things.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

When you’ve got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

See, I think you live on earth a certain number of times until you finish what it is that you were meant to do here. And then you go on. I don’t think I’ll be back here. I think I’m done.

Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.