By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.

The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line.

Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.

The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.

When you're in a crisis of, you know, tremendous proportions, it's beyond any human capability to control, you just make the best decisions you can, and you just hope that your intuition is correct.

I know you've got to earn people's trust, and you've got to earn it day after day after day.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

My favorite umpire is a dead one.

I'm a little frail girl, but I like being tied up, blindfolded and gagged so you can't move.

Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.

If you don't stay in some days, you can't recharge your batteries.

That’s right, Sadie. For our first real date, I picked up Zia in a boat pulled by a deranged griffin. So what? Like your dates aren’t weird?

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.