Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

I grew up singing in church. My family owned funeral homes so I would sing for the occasional funeral, as well.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.