A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we every imagined.

As she sustained wound after wound...the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen.

Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.

Never try to justify your failures based on your luck. You just didn’t work hard enough!

Social media provides an avenue to build relationships with media outlets and have an ongoing relationship with reporters.

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

I know it is easy to criticise and I accept it is a difficult job managing England but the man in charge must be passionate and realise he owes it to the nation to win the World Cup.

The typical presidential staff resents the vice-president even more than they do the first lady.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.