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

What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

Everyone needs some time to themselves.

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.

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

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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