Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.