"Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power."

"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war."

"Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

"Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination."

"It is a quiet truth that vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos."

"People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank."

"I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else."