"Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference."

"Something that is yours forever is never precious"

"…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future."

"I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own."

"If you're outraged at conditions, then you can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can't change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice."

"We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the non-violence struggle for peace and justice you also find that people give you their hearts and you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love."

"The name of the game is to talk to people. If you don't talk to people, you can't get started...You knock on twenty doors or so, and twenty guys tell you to go to hell, or that they haven't got time. But maybe at the fortieth or sixtieth house you find the one guy who is all you need. You're not going to organize everything; you're just going to get it started."

"If you want to remember me, organize!"

"Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return."

"It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves."

"You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore."

"Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface."

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

"When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon."

"Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines."

"Non-violence exacts a very high price from one who practices it. But once you are able to meet that demand then you can do most things."

"I think at the time I wasn't very happy about it [marriage], but actually it made me a stronger person, you find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn't realized. I think you can get quite consumed by a relationship when you are younger and I really valued that time for me as well, although I didn't think it at the time."

"Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well."

"There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family."

"All of us know someone who has been through difficult emotional times, and we know how hard it can be to see a way forward."

"There's no one quite like William - I bet he's really kind. You can just tell by looking at him."

"In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it."

"I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work."

"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly."